Libcaca Alternatives
Libcaca is described as 'libcaca is a 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 alternative is png2linetext, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Libcaca are derasterize, textview and hiptext.
png2linetext
Is this a good alternative?YesNo4 alternatives to png2linetext- Free • Open Source
- Linux
Converts images into textual line art. Contribute to lf94/img2utf development by creating an account on GitHub.
png2linetext Features
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.
derasterize Features
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.
textview Features
Command line tool for turning images into text.
hiptext Features