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Dev tools · January 31, 2021

I wrote a rust program to translate images into textual line art

Converts images into textual line art. Contribute to lf94/img2utf development by creating an account on GitHub.

I wrote a rust program to translate images into textual line art launched on January 31, 2021 with 70 votes, #634 of 3,157 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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This is a Rust program that converts images into textual line art. Developers can use it to transform visual files into ASCII or text-based representations. The tool is useful for creating text-based art from photographs or illustrations, or for preparing images for terminal display and documentation.

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