ASCII art or art made by arranging texts like “a or b o c” or any ASCII compliant character sets to give it the same look as a real image. Early printers where not enhanced enough to support even basic graphics ability and thus characters were used in place of graphic marks. They were mainly used for making banners and ASCII art is also very commonly used amongst software piracy groups to display group logos inside text (*.nfo) files

How do I convert my photo to Ascii ?

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Its simple, You have to just go to Photo2Text and upload your picture. The application automatically converts it into ascii based image and its ready for download after you give it a name. You can also choose what type of character set you like and what kind of brightness you are looking for. Here is an example of what I did to my snap.

I would recommend to read Patrick Winfield wrote on Convert your photo to ASCII or you can directly go and try Photo2Text now!!

Update: There is Firefox add on available to convert any image to ASCII art with just one right click. Photo to Text Convertor Add on for firefox . It didnt work for me Do tell me if it works for you . Here is a small image which shows how it works.

 

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