# vietnh1009/ASCII-generator

ASCII generator (image to text, image to image, video to video)

Repository: https://github.com/vietnh1009/ASCII-generator
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ascii-generator
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ascii, ascii-art, cv2, pil, python, python3, opencv, character-ascii, ascii-generator
Last push: 2024-11-22T00:04:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2771, "days_push": 650, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 8318, forks 655 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:20.266724+00:00)

## What it is
A Python tool that converts images and videos into ASCII art, outputting text files or image/video files in grayscale or color. It supports multiple alphabets including English, German, French, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.

## Use cases
- convert an image to ascii art text file
- turn a photo into ascii art png
- convert a video to ascii art video
- generate colored ascii art from images
- make ascii art in chinese or japanese characters
- create ascii art with white background and black characters

## When to choose
- you want to convert images or videos into ascii art with flexible output formats
- you need ascii art in non-english character sets
- you want a simple python script you can tweak for background, color, and character complexity

## When to avoid
- you need a gui-based ascii art editor
- you need high-performance batch processing of large media libraries
- you need ascii animation rendering in the terminal in real time

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: stable
- function: image-processing, video-processing, graphics
- domain: image-processing, media, graphics
- platform: python, cross-platform, cli
- tags: ascii-art, opencv, pil, image-to-text, video-to-ascii, multilingual

## Member repositories
- vietnh1009/ASCII-generator (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:20.266724+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:27:54.704295+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/vietnh1009/ASCII-generator (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:20.266724+00:00, sha d669467cf331)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.