7 Best Online Tools for Converting Images to ASCII Text Art

American Standard Code for Information Interexchange (ASCII) code is a numerical representation of a character such as ‘a’ or ‘@’  in the raw format that any computer can understand without any text formatting like bold, tabs, underlines etc. I am sure, you wouldn’t have known that the Notepad in Windows by Default, saves all the files into ASCII Format.

You can Also use MS-Word and save this file as Text Only to have an ASCII File ready for your PC. A nice ASCII Codes Table is available online here at this website. But if you are looking for an Extended ASCII Table, head over to this link.

An ASCII Code is a 7-bit character code where every single bit represents a unique character and this ASCII Character Code helps you to easily convert images into text.

What is ASCII art?

According to Wikipedia, ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters. The term is also loosely used to refer to text-based visual art in general. ASCII art can be created with any text editor and is often used with free-form languages.

There are many ASCII art creators which are completely free to use, some of them are defined as follows:

1. GlassGiant ASCII Art

It changes the image into ASCII form, it is a jumble of letter, number, and symbols that do not have any significance until you see the whole picture. It has no practical purpose, other than the neat factor. To access click here

2. ASCII Art Generator

This free online Ascii Art creator allows you to convert images to color or monochrome Ascii Art. You can also convert text to Ascii Banners. To visit click here

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3. Ascii.mastervb

It is created from a 7-bit ASCII characters standard. It was popular in 70s-80s. To see click here

4. IMG2TXT

It directly takes the URL of PNG, JPG and GIF images and hence alters the images into colored HTML or ASCII text. To have a look click here

5. PICASCII

To convert a picture you just need to enter the URL or select the picture from your computer and the maximum size of the file to be uploaded is 500kb. To see click here

6. ASCIIart Generator

This is yet another drag and drop option to convert an image into text. It works fastest in the chrome browser. To visit click here

7. SpringFrog

It is an another operator to convert images into text with which you can play around, it does not work in Internet Explorer but perfectly works in firefox and other browsers. To visit click here

In this way, you can easily convert images into text.

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