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Image to ASCII

Converts a picture into ASCII or ANSI-coloured characters at a chosen width and character set.

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Drop an image

PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF or SVG. Decoded in this tab and never uploaded.

Brightness is Rec. 709 luminance (green counts for 72% of it, matching the eye) rather than a flat average of the channels, and each output character averages the whole block of pixels it covers rather than sampling one — so fine detail becomes texture instead of noise.

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These accept what this tool produces, so the result can go straight in.