Is there a command line program or library that turns image files into ASCII art?

Question

Is there such a thing? I would like to use it in a Ruby program.

Answer 1

Try this http://csl.sublevel3.org/jp2a/

Also maybe something with Imagemagick

Answer 2

Here jp2a, which converts jpeg. This is pretty cool!

Answer 3

. AAlib. http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/

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