derasterize is described as 'Converts pictures into Unicode text with Ansi colors for display within a terminal. It performs lots of AVX2 optimized math to deliver the best quality on modern terminals with 24-bit color support, e.g. Kitty, Gnome Terminal, CMD.EXE, mintty, mlterm, etc' and is an app. There are four alternatives to derasterize for Linux, Xfce, Mac and Windows. The best derasterize alternative is Libcaca, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like derasterize are hiptext, png2linetext and textview.
libcaca is a graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals.
Libcaca is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to derasterize.
Libcaca is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to derasterize.
Converts images into textual line art. Contribute to lf94/img2utf development by creating an account on GitHub.
Quickly view (satellite) imagery directly in your terminal using Unicode 9.0 characters and true color. textview is a small tool to quickly view high-resolution multi-band imagery directly in your terminal.
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