Recreate an image using Ascii characters.
The core implementation code is less than 15 lines of code using Python/OpenCV. You can find the code in image_to_ascii_mini.py.
A JS implementation of the code can be found online here.
The tool requires Python, OpenCV2. Generating image output is done using PIL.
usage: main.py [-h] -i INPUT [-o OUTPUT] [-s SIZE] [-inv] [-html] [-img]
Convert images to ascii
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-i INPUT, --input INPUT
Input file name
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
Output file base name. Extension not needed
-s SIZE, --size SIZE Size as number of rows and cols of characters. (Sample values [Cols]x[Rows]:
'200x' '300x100')
-inv, --invert Invert the dark and light shades
-html, --html Generate HTML output
-img, --image Generate image output
Sample Usage example:
python main.py -i samples/leo.jpg
python main.py -i samples/dog.jpg -s '100x' -o dog_ascii -img
If you are intersted in contributing there are a lot more things that can be done like
- GIF to Ascii GIF
- Video to Ascii Video
- Different language implementations maybe
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