Comments on: Convert images to text (ASCII art)

By: adrian

adrian — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:05:49 +0000

I fixed it and updated the post to point to the new script.

I needed to add this:
$path=(resolve-path -erroraction “stop” $path).path

adrian — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:56:23 +0000

Oh yes, so do I.

Yet more weirdness, akin to what I was speaking about in gotcha 2 at http://ps1.soapyfrog.com/2007/01/09/text-and-path-gotchas/

I’ll figure it out and repost the script.

Richy_Rich — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:12:49 +0000

I get this if you don’t put the explicit path to the input file. i.e.

./convert-image2text.ps1 blong.jpg
fails with divide by zero error
./convert-image2text.ps1 c:\blong.jpg
works

adrian — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:25:49 +0000

@ymasur – i’ve used some png and jpg images.
the image linked to the monalisa thumbnail for one.
what image(s) are you using?

ymasur — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:06:48 +0000

hmmm… I get an div by 0 error. The $imgwidth, forced gives nothing more. What type of image is supported? I tried a jpg one.
Regards,
//Yves

Rob Farley — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:50:56 +0000

The soapy frog does ASCII Art in PowerShell…

Of course the idea is the same as Unix’s AALib , but what’s so cool is how little code it takes to do…