Alternate's ASCII Artist - A tiny Windows program which can convert Windows bitmaps into ASCII art. Very minimal interface. Full Win32 SDK C++ Source code is Included (Open-Source under the zlib/libpng license).
Artist Mode for Emacs - Artist is an Emacs lisp package that allows you to draw lines, rectangles, squares, poly-lines, ellipses and circles by using your mouse and/ or keyboard.
ASCII Art Ensemble - Supporting the development of new free tools and software to create your own ASCII media converter.
ASCII Art Info - Free online tool to convert online images to ASCII characters. With colorizing and multiple font sizes.
ASCII Art Studio - ASCII Art editor. Supports text editing mode and graphic editing mode. View ANSI art. Convert between picture and ASCII Art, multiple undo/ redo, print.
ASCII Convert - Converts any image to ASCII text images online.
ASCII Editor Beta - Software to make and colour ASCII art. ASCII Editor 4.1 Beta, BMP2ASCII converter, ANSI viewer.
ASCII Generator dotNET - Open-source image to text converter, with support for variable width fonts.
Ascii Graffiti - Web application for creating color ASCII-style drawings using a javascript-based editor.
ASCII Jam - A free online ASCII graphics editor with private and groupware modes. Create color and traditional ASCII pictures and export to PDF and HTML formats. Java enabled browser required.
ASCII Mailer - Sends the recipient an ASCII art picture with a personalized message. The idea came from a REXX program called Oi.
ASCII Pic - Program to convert bitmaps (*.bmp) and JPEGs (*.jpg) into plain text files (*.txt).
ASCII Pumper by Lampiasis - Offers an open source program which requires the .NET Framework 2.0 to colorize ASCII art with mIRC color codes.
ASCIIfier - Allows you to upload images and turn them into ASCII art at the click of a button.
Asciifier - Convert an image, or all the images within a web page, into a pixel-perfect copy made only of text.
Asciimator - A web application which allows everybody to create ASCII animations, publish them and insert into their own web pages.
AskiArt for PalmOS - Free palm application to display ASCII art. These arts can be static or dynamic. Create, beam and share animated ASCII arts on PalmOS. Includes a club for people who use the software.
BG_ASCII - An interactive ASCII graphic tool. Creates pictures and artistic text made of ASCII characters. Programmed by Boris A. Glazer.
Bmp2Ansi - A freeware bmp to ANSI converter. This program is useful when you want to create a logo for nfo-files.
Characterizer - Freeware "One form" application for converting images to ASCII text (ASCII art).
Code is My Life: ASCII Arts - Compose own your ASCII art by uploading an image, which is then automatically transformed to text art.
Cthrough Technologies - Design text art with Bit Macro Studio. View and play text movies with Macro Media Player. Post your text creations under the macros section.
EDASCII - EDASCII is an ASCII art editor for Linux. It allows a fast and easy manipulation of ASCII drawings.
Email Effects - A powerful GUI ASCII art editor for Windows or Macintosh, including picture and table conversion and Figlet support.
FABS - Flexible ASCII Banner Software - FABS is a program for making banners, except it uses ASCII characters for the fonts. Sort of like Figlet program turned sideways.
GIF2TXT - Convert gifs into ASCII pictures. Script to use online, not a download.
Image2Ascii Competition 2001 - From a discussion in alt.ascii-art. The intention is to compare different image2ascii converters and also to see how ASCII artists do that kind of conversion by hand.
IMG2ASCII - A PHP program, that generates ASCII images from JPG, GIF or PNG images. There are several options to alter the generated output, such as color, inversed color, font sizes, background color, line height or letter spacing.
Jave - Free java ASCII versatile editor. Rather than for editing texts, it is intended for drawing simple diagrams by using ASCII characters.
Libcaca - A colour ASCII art library. For Unix, DOS and Windows to draw colour text and transform images into ASCII art graphics. It also lets you play ASCII art Doom or Quake under Linux.
Magic ASCII Studio - An ASCII art generation platform. You can make ASCII art words, photos and animations. Take an image and process it to an HTML, RTF or BMP file.
NegaZer0 Genera - Creates text-based images using a variety of intuitive tools. Features a string list and an ASCII table. The formatting bar can hold up to five different font formats.
Pablo Tools - Offers Pabloview, an NFO viewer and Pablodraw, a multi-user ANSI editor. Both support ANSI characters and are designed for Windows. Pablodraw is also open source, and an older version is available for DOS.
Pic2ascii - Designed to transform bitmap images to ASCII, text art.
SigZag - Freeware to create personalized signatures. Includes a library of ASCII art pictures. Use figlet fonts, and taglines. Convert normal text into the multi-line representation of the characters.
TextDraw and Imagetrix - TextDraw is a full-color ASCII art editor. Imagetrix converts images to text. Choose from several image effects to alter the conversion. Save the converted text as HTML, RTF, JPG, BMP, TXT or TDF (TextDraw Document Format).
Tribute to Text Mode Games - Virtual museum for games using only 16 colors and the 255 symbols in the IBM-extended ASCII character set. Download, play, and admire these gems from a simpler time in computing.
The ULTed Home Page - A utility program for drawing and colorizing ASCII art.
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