A command line interface for preventing bots via ascii image recognition
Follow the prompts.
$ python3 improved.py
You'll need to download some images that are nice and recognisable (minimum of 3 per subject). Only a single photo of a windmill (example_objects/windmill/windmill*.jpeg) is provided.
Also included is a server version. You can run the server with python3 server.py, and connect to it with nc localhost 6963.
I recommend lowering the width of the printed image (in improved.py and/or server.py) which is supplied as an argument to img2ansi.convert.
- python3
- PIL (pip3 install PIL)
- Find some site that doesn't require JS to search images. At the moment, the memory usage is quite high just because we're running a full chrome instance for this
- Larger wordbank (also try to pick ones that aren't really too ambiguous)
- i want a larger image bank, but this is not really a TODO for this repo
- Scale the ascii down (there's probably a library to do this). The image currently doesn't fit!
- we can now generate ascii art at any size. There is an argument to
_toAnsithat determines how wide the image is (in img2ansi.py). - increasing it too much likely means that its more likely that a bot could guess what the image is
- we can now generate ascii art at any size. There is an argument to
- Improve the ascii art generated, might need some image processing to increase contrast, and remove the background
- this may be bad having too much contrast! this means that bots could make the ascii into images, and reverse img search..
- Write this into client/server tool
- Pluggable scramblers. I'm talking writing ^H and lots of seeking. Might require some conversion to ncurses, so we can write to the screen arbitrarily
- pluggable, so that other people can write this stuff
- we want scramblers to thwart people who are piping the output and stuff. of course they can reconstruct it
- we want a module to change colours a bit, and warp the images a bit.
- Logging, I want to know who and when, and timings for their reponses
- my current method of lsof doesn't work.... it requires sudo rights for that