go-img2ascii - An image-to-ascii converter

This is a cli tool that converts any jpeg, jpg or png image to an ascii representation.

Sample

Original	Ascii'd

Usage

go run main.go [path-to-image] [character-width]

Installation

• Click here to download the latest release for your platform.
• Extract the archive to a preferred folder/directory
• Ensure this folder/directory is in your OS' PATH, otherwise add it to PATH
• Now you can run go-img2ascii [path-to-image] [character-width] from anywhere

Todo

• ✅ load and decode image file
• ✅ resize the image
• ✅ convert image to grayscale
• ✅ map grayscaled image to ascii characters
• ✅ save ascii'd image to file
• ✅ refactor with any cli library (https://github.com/urfave/cli)