picharsso 1.21

A command line utility to convert an image to text art.

Picharsso

A command line utility to convert an image to text art.

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Installation

pip install picharsso

Usage

With the -h flag, the program outputs usage information.

usage: picharsso [-h] {config,art} ...

Picharsso

positional arguments:
  {config,art}
    config      show config path
    art         transform image to text art

optional arguments:
  -h, --help    show this help message and exit

For an in depth guide to the functionality of the program, navigate to the Wiki.

Examples

Consider the following poster:

The following images are screenshots of the outputs of different runs on a terminal with a dark background.

ASCII

Grayscale

picharsso art ascii assets/readme/example.jpg -H

Color

picharsso art ascii assets/readme/example.jpg -H -c

Braille

Grayscale

picharsso art braille assets/readme/example.jpg -H

Color

picharsso art braille assets/readme/example.jpg -H -c

Citation

If you use this implementation in your work, please cite the following:

@misc{decosta2019picharsso,
    author = {Kelvin DeCosta},
    title = {Picharsso},
    year = {2019},
    howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/kelvindecosta/picharsso}},
}