Turn Any Image into ASCII Art on Linux with Ascii Image Converter

Overview

Ascii Image Converter is a command‑line utility written in Go that transforms raster images into ASCII art. It can output plain‑text ASCII or colored PNG representations.

Installation on Linux

If Snap is available on the distribution, install the pre‑built snap package: sudo snap install ascii-image-converter Otherwise, download the appropriate binary from the project's release page, make it executable, and place it in a directory that is in $PATH (e.g., /usr/local/bin/).

Basic Usage

Convert a local image file: ascii-image-converter path/to/image.jpg Convert an image directly from a remote URL:

ascii-image-converter https://example.com/image.png

Advanced Options

Colored output : add the -C flag to generate a colored PNG instead of plain text. ascii-image-converter -C path/to/image.jpg Save result : use -s followed by a directory or filename to write the output file. Newer versions default to PNG; older versions saved plain‑text files.

ascii-image-converter path/to/image.jpg -s ./output.png

Resize output : specify width and height with -w and -h (or a combined -size option, depending on version) to control the dimensions of the generated ASCII art.

Custom character set : provide a custom set of ASCII characters with -c to influence shading granularity.

Batch processing : list multiple image paths; the tool will render each image sequentially.

Supported Input Formats

JPEG / JPG

PNG

BMP

WEBP

TIFF / TIF

Reference

Full documentation, source code, and release binaries are available at the project repository:

https://github.com/TheZoraiz/ascii-image-converter