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AV-I20

Image to ASCII Art

Turn an image into ASCII art text, or a chunky pixelated picture.

● Runs on your device; nothing is uploaded

How to use it

  1. Drop an image onto the upload area.
  2. Choose ASCII art or Pixelate.
  3. For ASCII art, set Width, Characters, Invert, Colour and Character aspect.
  4. For Pixelate, set the Block size.
  5. Copy the text, or download the .txt, coloured .html or PNG.

Limits

Input formats
JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP, TIFF, SVG
File size
25 MB
Image size
50 megapixels
ASCII width
20–300 characters
Custom characters
100
Block size
2–100 px
Features
  • Standard, detailed, block or custom character sets
  • Coloured HTML export keeps the image colours
  • Perceptual lightness with character aspect correction
  • Pixelated PNG keeps the original image size
  • Large images are worked on at 1200 px wide for speed

For AI agents: avtools_image_to_ascii

AV-I20 · Image to ASCII Art

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