Textograph is a little utility that takes an image in JPEG, GIF, or PNG format and converts it to a black and white image pixelated by text characters. The utility uses different text characters to represent different grayscale levels based on the "density" of the characters - the amount of black in the characters' glyphs. The resulting images can be saved as plain text files, and used to present pictorial images in text-only media (e.g., for pictorial signatures in email messages, etc.)

• Version 1.0 - Windows / Mac OSX / Linux / Unix

The image below is a photograph of the author transformed into a text image with textograph.

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