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[#]: subject: (Convert Images to ASCII Art in Linux Terminal With This Nifty Little Tool)
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[#]: via: (https://itsfoss.com/ascii-image-converter/)
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[#]: author: (Abhishek Prakash https://itsfoss.com/author/abhishek/)
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[#]: collector: (lujun9972)
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[#]: translator: (geekpi)
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Convert Images to ASCII Art in Linux Terminal With This Nifty Little Tool
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Want to do some fun stuff in the Linux terminal? How about converting a regular image into an ASCII art?
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You know [what’s ASCII][1]? It’s a standard that assigns letters, numbers and other characters in the 256 slots available in the 8-bit code. The ASCII art is a graphics composed of the printable ASCII characters. Basically, it is composed of a bunch of letters, numbers and special characters.
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You might have seen people [displaying their distribution’s logo in ASCII format][2] like this:
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![][3]
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That’s cool, right? How about converting a normal picture into ASCII art? That’s what you are going to explore in this article.
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### Ascii Image Converter
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As the name suggests, [Ascii Image Converter][4] is a tool that converts an image into ASCII art. It is a command line based tool written in Go and it prints the ASCII version of the image supplied to it.
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You probably won’t recognize me, but that’s me in ASCII in the image below. That’s my 8-bit avatar.
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![][5]
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The tool supports input images in the following format:
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* JPEG/JPG
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* PNG
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* BMP
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* WEBP
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* TIFF/TIF
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Let’s see about installing and using it.
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### Installing Ascii Image Converter on Linux
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This nifty tool is also available on Windows but I am not going that way. Let’s stick to Linux in this tutorial.
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If you have [Snap enabled in your distribution][6], you can easily install its snap package using the following command:
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```
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sudo snap install ascii-image-converter
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```
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You may also download the Linux executable file from its release page and put the executable in the /usr/local/bin/ directory. This way, you’ll be able to run it like a regular Linux command. If you wonder why so, please learn about [Linux directory hierarchy][7].
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### Using Ascii Image Converter
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The usage is simple. Once installed, you just have to provide the path of the image you want to convert.
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```
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ascii-image-converter path_to_image
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```
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You may also provide the URL of the image to convert an image into ASCII directly from the web.
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Here is my profile picture converted into ASCII. I have put my original photo for the reference.
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You may also have a colored ASCII conversion.
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```
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ascii-image-converter -C path_to_image
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```
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You may convert multiple images into ASCII by providing their paths. It will print the ASCII version one after another on the terminal display.
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There is an option to save the generated ASCII art but as a text file, not as an image. The command below will save the ASCII art by adding “-ascii-art.txt” to the image name in the directory path passed to the flag.
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```
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ascii-image-converter path_to_image -s .
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```
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There are a few more options available such as giving the output a specific dimension, use more ASCII characters, or use your own set of characters for printing the ASCII art. You can read about it on the [project’s repository][4].
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### Like it?
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Do you like more ASCII stuff? How about [playing ASCII games on Linux][10]? Yes, you can totally do that.
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If you like experimenting in the terminal, you may like this tool. Though I wonder what could be a good practical use of an ASCII converted image. Any ideas?
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via: https://itsfoss.com/ascii-image-converter/
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作者：[Abhishek Prakash][a]
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选题：[lujun9972][b]
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[a]: https://itsfoss.com/author/abhishek/
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[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
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[1]: https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/ascii.htm
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[2]: https://itsfoss.com/display-linux-logo-in-ascii/
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[3]: https://i0.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ubuntu-mate-focal-neofetch.png?resize=800%2C543&ssl=1
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[4]: https://github.com/TheZoraiz/ascii-image-converter
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[5]: https://i1.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/abhishek-prakash-in-ascii.png?resize=800%2C445&ssl=1
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[6]: https://itsfoss.com/enable-snap-support-linux-mint/
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[7]: https://linuxhandbook.com/linux-directory-structure/
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[8]: https://i0.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/abhishek-prakash-ascii-converted.png?resize=800%2C437&ssl=1
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[9]: https://i1.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/abhishek-colored-ascii.png?resize=800%2C429&ssl=1
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[10]: https://itsfoss.com/best-ascii-games/
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