Comment posted Viewing JPEG,GIF and PNG in ASCII with cacaview on GNU / Linux – Review on caca-utils text mode graphics utilities by .
Recent comments by
Tags: animation files, art, ascii art library, Auto, caca, colour, colour text, connection, conversion routines, demo, description, Disk, dpkg, Draft, ellipse, gnu linux, graphics utilities, gui images, hipo, host, JPG, level, level functions, libcaca, linux distros, nbsp, noah, original graphics, package, plain ascii, png, polygon, primitives, screen, screenshot, shot, shot description, show, something, support, terminal, text, text conversion, text mode, tiny program, xserver
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; bg-bg) AppleWebKit/531.2+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/531.2+ Debian/squeeze (2.30.6-1) Epiphany/2.30.6
Another tool I’ve found capable of converting images to text is jp2a
http://csl.sublevel3.org/jp2a/.
It has version for major Unix like OSes Mac OS X, Debian, Gentoo, FreeBSD. Here is how to install jp2a on this OSes.
Mac OS X
port install jp2a
FreeBSD
You can use the Freshports:
pkg_add -r jp2a
Debian
You can use the Debian package:
apt-get install jp2a
Gentoo
You can use the Gentoo package:
emerge jp2a
Interesting functionality of jp2a is converting images to ascii right from the web. Here is a paste from the project site:
Reading images off the net
jp2a now handles downloading by using libcurl. Just do this:
jp2a http://foo.bar/image.jpg
One advantage of img2txt use instead is it supports JPEG and GIF out of the box, where if jp2a is used. a Convertion with imagemagick convert is first necessery, like so:
# convert somefile.png jpg:- | jp2a –width=76 –
View CommentView Comment#convert bender.bmp -modulate 170 -rotate 45 jpg:- | jp2a –