# stathissideris/ditaa

ditaa is a small command-line utility that can convert diagrams drawn using ascii art ('drawings' that contain characters that resemble lines like | / - ), into proper bitmap graphics.

Repository: https://github.com/stathissideris/ditaa
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ditaa
Language: Java
License: LGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2022-03-14T03:14:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5623, "days_push": 1633, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1041, forks 95 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:20.625740+00:00)

## What it is
ditaa is a small Java command-line utility that converts diagrams drawn using ASCII art characters (like | / -) into proper bitmap graphics. It interprets ASCII art as open and closed shapes and supports special markup syntax for additional shapes and symbols.

## Use cases
- convert ascii art diagrams to png images
- render diagrams from plain text files
- modernize old ascii diagrams in documentation
- embed editable diagrams in text-only formats like html or latex
- generate diagrams from code comments
- redraw ascii diagrams with better styling

## When to choose
- you have existing ascii art diagrams you want as images
- you prefer defining diagrams in plain text within source code or docs
- you want a lightweight scriptable diagram renderer with no gui

## When to avoid
- you need complex modern diagram types like uml sequence diagrams with rich styling
- you want interactive graphical diagram editing
- you need vector output formats like svg

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cli, image-processing, graphics
- domain: developer-tools, graphics, documentation
- platform: cli, cross-platform, jvm
- tags: ascii-art, diagram-rendering, text-to-image, java, command-line

## Member repositories
- stathissideris/ditaa (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:20.625740+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 2026-08-30T07:02:59.093481+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/stathissideris/ditaa (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:20.625740+00:00, sha 6c7c7e946f5c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.