The process consists of recreating an image or scene by solely using respectively plain or colored text characters.
The images which this results in serves little practical purpose other than retro entertainment.
The scenes that can be rendered using these techniques are often nothing short of astounding.
This once tedious process has long since been simplified for the common human being as well.
Everyone can now create incredibly looking text art in just seconds.
For this article, we would like to focus on online services to convert images to text.
Photo2Text
Photo2Text quickly converts any picture to ASCII art.
The detail that this technique can render is amazing.
After rendering, you’ll be shown a first example of the ASCII art, as demonstrated below.
Matrix conversion is a spin on the standard ASCII conversion.
More interesting however is the HTML conversion.
Your picture is then replicated by text coloring.
The algorithm might be a little simpler, but it delivers interesting results.
Since the image is rendered in HTML, it does not always show very well in different browsers.
Prior to conversion, you might specify which web app you’re using to get the best results.
