Image To Characters Converter

Simple CLI program for converting images to images from characters (ASCII or Unicode). See examples below.

Requirements

• Pillow

TODO:

• Add some comments
• Add custom font selection
• Bug fixes
• Add inverting feature
• Other improvements
• Rewrite code in another language (e.g. C++)

Usage

Usage: python main.py input file [output file] [options]

Options:
-v or --verbose       enable verbose output
-c or --colored       make characters colored
-u or --unicode       use unicode characters instead of ascii 
-o or --output-txt    create text file 'output.txt' with characters

-s [float] or --scale [float]             set source image scaling (default value: 100 or one character for any pixel)
-f [integer] or --font-size [integer]     set font size (default value: 16)
-p [float] or --padding [float]           set characters padding from right and bottom (distance between characters). Default value: 0. 
                                          Can take negative values.
-pr [float] or --padding-right [float]    set characters padding only from right. Default value: 0. Can take negative values.
-pb [float] or --padding-bottom [float]   set characters padding only from bottom. Default value: 0. Can take negative values.

Examples