Libcaca Alternatives

Libcaca is described as 'Graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals' and is an app in the video & movies category. There are four alternatives to Libcaca for Linux. The best Libcaca alternative is png2linetext, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Libcaca are derasterize, textview and hiptext.

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    Converts images into textual line art. Contribute to lf94/img2utf development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
    • png2linetext is the most popular Linux alternative to Libcaca.

    • png2linetext is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Libcaca.

    • png2linetext is Free and Open SourceLibcaca is also Free and Open Source
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    derasterize 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Command line tool for turning images into text.

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    • Linux
     
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