img_to_txt is still 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 issues using or building.
Currently just Linux but Windows coming soon!
| Image Type | Supported |
|---|---|
| jpg | Full |
| png | Full |
| bmp | Full |
| tga | Most Subsets |
| hdr | RGBE Format |
| gif | Static |
| pic | Softimage |
| pnm/pgm/ppm | Binary only |
$ git clone https://github.com/danny-burrows/img_to_txt.git
$ makeUsage: img_to_txt [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Convert images to text. Either Ascii, Ansi (true colour),
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
Please, if you come accross any bugs or issues feel free to submit them on the issues page of the github. Pull requests are accepted too. :-)
If you'd like to get involved with the development fork and download the source! You'll need gcc, gdb and make. The makefile should contain all you need to get started building in debug mode.
$ make config=debug