ArtGen is a CLI tool that generates ASCII art from images and text. This project was created out of an interest in building something fun using existing Python packages. It is free, open-source, and designed to convert images into ASCII art. Additional features and changes are being explored and will be updated in upcoming versions.

Two New features

• interactive web mode to allow more control and support for local image upload

• interactive cli mode to allow run within terminal.

• Fetches images using DuckDuckGo

• Converts images to ASCII art

• Shows fallback stylized text with pyfiglet

Make sure you have python 3.12 or higher installed. You can download and install directly from python official

You can install ArtGen from PyPi:

  pip install artgen --upgrade

For web interface:

   artgen interactive

That will open on localhost or

For cli interactive interface:

   artgen interactive_cli

To generate ASCII art, use the following command:

  artgen generate_art "Cat"

  artgen generate_word "Sunflower"

  artgen generate_img "ASCII"

  artgen generate_art "frenchie"

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or PR on GitHub.