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jp2a(1) USER COMMANDS jp2a(1) NAME jp2a - convert JPEG, PNG and WebP images to ASCII SYNOPSIS jp2a [ options ] [ filename(s) | URL(s) ] DESCRIPTION jp2a will convert JPEG, PNG and WebP images to ASCII characters. You can specify a mixture of files and URLs. OPTIONS - Read JPEG, PNG and WebP image from standard input --background=light --background=dark If you don't want to mess with --invert all the time, just use these instead. If you are using white characters on a black display, then use --background=dark, and vice versa. -b --border Frame output image in a border --chars=... Use the given characters when producing the output ASCII image. De- fault is " ...',;:clodxkO0KXNWM". --colors Use truecolor (or ANSI color if truecolor is not supported) for text output and CSS color for HTML output. --color-depth=... Use a specific color-depth for terminal output. Valid values are: 4 (for ANSI), 8 (for 256 color palette) and 24 (for truecolor or 24-bit color). -d --debug Print debugging information when using libcurl to download images from the net. -f --term-fit Use the largest dimension that makes the image fit in your terminal display. --term-height Use terminal display height and calculate width based on image as- pect ratio. --term-width Use terminal display width and calculate height based on image as- pect ratio. -z --term-zoom Use terminal display width and height. -c --term-center Center image in terminal. --fill When used with --html and --color, then color each output charac- ter's background color. For instance, if you want to use fill-out- put on a light background, do jp2a --color --html --html-fill --background=light somefile.jpg --output=dark.html To do the same on a light background: jp2a --color --html --html-fill --background=dark somefile.jpg --output=light.html The default is to have fill disabled. -x --flipx Flip output image horizontally -y --flipy Flip output image vertically --height=N Set output height. If only --height is specified, then output width will be calculated according to the source images aspect ratio. -h --help Display a short help text --grayscale Converts image to grayscale when using --html or --colors. --html Make ASCII output in strict XHTML 1.0. (Will output in HTML for ver- sion 2.0.0 and above.) --htmlls Make ASCII output in HTML (Living Standard), suitable for viewing with web browsers. This is useful with big output dimensions, and if you want to check the result with a browser with small font. --xhtml Make ASCII output in strict XHTML 1.0. --html-fill Same as --fill. You should use that option instead. --html-no-bold Do not use bold text for HTML output. --html-raw Output only the image in HTML codes, leaving out the rest of the webpage, so you can construct your own. (Will use <br> for version 2.0.0 and above instead of <br/>.) --html-fontsize=N Set fontsize when using --html output. Default is 4. --html-title=... Set HTML output title. --output=... Write ASCII output to given filename. To explicitly specify stan- dard output, use --output=-. -i --invert Invert output image. If you view a picture with white background, but you are using a display with light characters on a dark back- ground, you should invert the image. --red=... --green=... --blue=... When converting from RGB to grayscale, use the given weights to cal- culate luminance. The default is red=0.2989, green=0.5866 and blue=0.1145. --size=WIDTHxHEIGHT Set output dimension. -v --verbose Print some verbose information to standard error when reading each JPEG image. --width=N Set output width. If you only specify the width, the height will be calculated automatically. -V --version Print program version. --zoom Sets output dimensions to your entire terminal window, disregarding source image aspect ratio. --edge-threshold= ... Specifies an image gradient above which to shade lines and edges with directional glyphs (such as -/|\). The right value to pick up the edges nicely will depend on the image but might be around 0.5. --edges-only Only draw edges, so that the resulting image is like a line drawing or edge detector. This option should be used in conjunction with --edge-threshold so that edges are drawn. RETURN VALUES jp2a returns 1 when errors are encountered, zero for no errors. EXAMPLES Convert and print imagefile.jpg using ASCII characters in 40 columns and 20 rows: jp2a --size=40x20 imagefile.jpg Download an image off the net, convert and print: jp2a http://www.google.com/intl/en/logos/easter_logo.jpg Output picture.jpg and picture2.jpg, each 80x25 characters, using the char- acters " ...ooxx@@" for output: jp2a --size=80x25 --chars=" ...ooxx@@" picture.jpg picture2.jpg Output image.jpg using 76 columns, height is automatically calculated from aspect ratio of image.jpg cat image.jpg | jp2a --width=76 - If you use jp2a together with ImageMagick's convert(1) then you can make good use of pipes, and have ImageMagick do all sorts of image conversions and effects on the source image. For example: magick somefile.gif jpg:- | jp2a - --width=80 Check out convert(1) options to see what you can do. Convert can handle almost any image format, so with this combination you can convert images in e.g. PDF or AVI files to ASCII. jp2a uses a very basic scaling algorithm for every image format except WebP. To get better quality, convert an image to WebP to make use of the scaling built into the libwebp library: cwebp -quiet image.jpg -o - | jp2a - Although the default build of jp2a includes automatic downloading of files specified by URLs, you can explicitly download them by using curl(1) or wget(1), for example: curl -s http://foo.bar/image.jpg | magick - jpg:- | jp2a - You can pass the --edge-threshold option to highlight the edges of the im- age, or add the --edges-only option to draw only the edges, to produce a line drawing. jp2a --edge-threshold=0.5 --edges-only imagefile.jpg DOWNLOADING IMAGES FROM THE NET If you have compiled jp2a with libcurl(3), you can download images by spec- ifying URLs: jp2a https://user:pass@foo.com/bar.jpg The protocols recognized are ftp, ftps, file, http, https and tftp. If you need more control of the downloading, you should use curl(1) or wget(1) and jp2a read the image from standard input. jp2a uses pipe and fork to download images using libcurl (i.e., no exec or system calls) and therefore does not worry about malevolently formatted URLs. GRAYSCALE CONVERSION You can extract the red channel by doing this: jp2a somefile.jpg --red=1.0 --green=0.0 --blue=0.0 This will calculate luminance based on Y = R*1.0 + G*0.0 + B*0.0. The de- fault values is to use Y = R*0.2989 + G*0.5866 + B*0.1145. PROJECT HOMEPAGE The latest version of jp2a and news is always available from https://github.com/Talinx/jp2a. SEE ALSO cjpeg(1), djpeg(1), jpegtran(1), convert(1), cwebp(1) BUGS jp2a does not interpolate when resizing (except for WebP images). If you want better quality, try using cwebp(1) to convert the image to WebP before using jp2a to get correct scaling. Another issue is that jp2a skips some X-pixels along each scanline. This gives a less precise output image, and will probably be corrected in future versions. AUTHOR Christian Stigen Larsen and Christoph Raitzig jp2a uses jpeglib to read JPEG files. jpeglib is made by The Independent JPEG Group (IJG), who have a page at http://www.ijg.org jp2a uses libpng to read PNG files. libpng's homepage: http://libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html jp2a uses libwebp to read WebP files. libwebp's homepage: https://develop- ers.google.com/speed/webp/ LICENSE jp2a is distributed under the GNU General Public License v2. version 1.3.0 September 22, 2024 jp2a(1)
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | RETURN VALUES | EXAMPLES | DOWNLOADING IMAGES FROM THE NET | GRAYSCALE CONVERSION | PROJECT HOMEPAGE | SEE ALSO | BUGS | AUTHOR | LICENSE
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