Image to ASCII

This small program convert some image formats to ASCII representation and print it to the terminal in raw format

Build

git clone --recursive https://github.com/Michicosun/img2ascii

Firstly, you should build OpenCV lib:

$ cd contrib/
$ rm -rf build
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake .. -G Ninja
$ ninja opencv_imgcodecs

If you want a static build of the program, add -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF parameter for cmake

$ cmake .. -G Ninja -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF

On the second stage, build the program:

$ cd path_to_img2ascii
$ rm -rf build
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake .. -G Ninja
$ ninja img2ascii

$ ./img2ascii <path_to_image> [OPTIONS]

Initially it runs with scale factor=1, but you can change it, by adding -r parameter in command

$ ./img2ascii <path_to_image> -r 0.3

Also, you can turn on colored output by adding -c key

$ ./img2ascii <path_to_image> -r 0.3 -c