Download TxtImg 1.0
TxtImg is freeware.

TxtImg is a program to help you create text images, or "ASCII art." TxtImg correlates font character bitmaps with the image data, and can sometimes produce a text image of surprisingly high fidelity. TxtImg is an MS Windows program targeted for modern computers with high color displays and fairly fast processors -- which doesn't make a lot of sense since the output is just a text image. But so it goes.



Screen Shots -- 1024 x 768 True Color Screen, reduced 50%


TxtImg using the correlation match type

This text image of Lama Rinchen was generated using the correlation match type, which is sensitive to intensity variations rather than absolute intensity. Correlation sketches out the edges in the image.

View full size screen shot of Lama Rinchen, 120 KB.




Text image using the "difference" match type

This text image was generated using the "difference" match type, which is sensitive to absolute intensity. To make this work you usually have to fiddle with the "black level" slider to match the image dynamic range with the font dynamic range. For this unusually simple and bright image I left the slider at 0. If you view the full size screen shot of this from 10 feet away you can see quite a bit of detail.

View full size screen shot of the Vargas Girl, 104 KB.




Take at look at these talking text heads to see the effect in action.



To report bugs and make suggestions, please email
kwstork at noping.net