How to add text to an image in java?

Question

I need to add some texts to an existing table image (png). Which means that I need to "write" on the image and I need the option to select the text location. How can I do it?

Solution

It's easy, just get the Graphics object from the image and draw your string onto the image. This example (and output image) is doing that:

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    final BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(new URL(
        "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Lenna.png"));

    Graphics g = image.getGraphics();
    g.setFont(g.getFont().deriveFont(30f));
    g.drawString("Hello World!", 100, 100);
    g.dispose();

    ImageIO.write(image, "png", new File("test.png"));
}

Output (test.png):