X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,c2f131bfc822d86b X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-25 01:06:50 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!xlink.net!picard.nordwest.de!caty.ol.sub.de!shlink.shn.com!news.maz.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: zangief@netcom.com (Ryo-oh-ki) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii Subject: Info: graphic to text map conversion Date: 25 Jan 1995 03:06:50 -0600 Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Lines: 23 Sender: boba@gagme.wwa.com Approved: boba@wwa.com Message-ID: <3g54ba$9u0@gagme.wwa.com> References: <3g2bvg$fq6@gagme.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gagme.wwa.com Keywords: text graphic In article <3g2bvg$fq6@gagme.wwa.com>, David Anthony Sexton wrote: : :Hi folks, : Is there a software program to convert a graphic image into a text map :representation of the image using alphanumeric characters?. I remember :in the early days of computing that images were produced this way on :line printers using alphanumeric characters, but I'm not sure whether :this was done using a program or by manual labour! :Thanks in advance for any info. If you have access to any of the PBM Plus utilities, you can do this in Unix: giftoppm < pic.gif | ppmtopgm | pgmtopbm | pbmtoascii > pic.txt ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ (these are arbitrary filenames) ___/^_^\___ Eugene Lee Ryo-oh-ki Muyo! Tenchi zangief@netcom.com