img_to_txt is a small utility that converts images of various formats into ASCII art. It's in early development but feel free to try it out! See the Build and Usage sections for more details on getting started. If you'd like to get involved please see the Contributing section. Also please submit an issue if you have any problems using or building this program.

Image Support

Image Type	Support Status
jpg	Full
png	Full
bmp	Full
tga	Most Subsets
hdr	RGBE Format
gif	Static
pic	Softimage
pnm/pgm/ppm	Binary only

Platforms Supported

Only tested on Linux so far however minimal changes would be needed to support other platforms.

Build

git clone https://github.com/danny-burrows/img_to_txt.git
cd ./img_to_txt
make

Usage

Usage: img_to_txt [OPTION]... [FILE]...

Convert images to text. Either Ascii, Ansi (true color),
or solid background (Ansi true color).


Available input image types:

    - jpg/jpeg
    - png
    - bmp
    - tga
    - hdr
    - gif (static)
    - pic (not tested yet)
    - ppm/pnm/pgm


Options:

    -w --width          Set width and height (rows and cols) of output.
    -h --height

    -o --original-size  Output original size. (Size of image in text)

    -a --ascii          Ascii mode. (no ansi colors)
    -s --solid          Solid mode. (Background colors with no ascii chars)

    -t --true-color     Use true color for ANSI output.
                        (Need true-color supported terminal)

    -n --no-squashing   Disable standard image squashing that tries to make
                        image look less elongated by chars being taller than
                        they are wide.

    -q --quiet          Quiet mode (suppress header)

    -? --help           Print help message and exit.

    -v --version        Print version and exit.


Examples:

    img_to_txt -h 100 -w 200 -s some_img.png

    img_to_txt -whqt 30 some_img.png

    img_to_txt -a some_img.jpg

    img_to_txt -q -t -o some_img.bmp

Contributing

If you come across bugs or problems with this software please feel free to submit in issue on GitHub. Pull requests are accepted too. :-)

If you'd like to get involved with the development then fork and download the source! You'll just need gcc and make. The Makefile should contain everything you need to get building in debug mode (see section below).

Building in debug mode

make config=debug