cli-art 0.0.1
ASCII art generator with multiple customization parameters
License: MIT
Requires Python: >=3.8,<4.0
Keywords: cli,console,ascii,art,font,image

## Description

Named as such, this package is a command-line ASCII art generator written in Python. There is a variety of parameters which are detailed below.

## Installation

With Python installed, install the package from PyPI with the following command:

```bash
python -m pip install ascii-art-cli
```

This package is not to be confused with [ascii_art](https://pypi.org/project/ascii_art/) or other various ASCII art packages.

## Usage

This is a command-line program, and can be executed as follows:

```bash
ascii-art [-h] [--width WIDTH] [--height HEIGHT] [--chars CHARS] [--font FONT] [--invert] [--normalize] input
```

Positional arguments:

```txt
  input            Path to image from which ASCII art will be generated
```

Optional arguments:

```txt
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --width WIDTH    Character width of ASCII art
  --height HEIGHT  Character height of ASCII art
  --chars CHARS    String containing characters to be seen in ASCII art
  --font FONT      Font for calculating the character weights
  --invert         Whether the ASCII output color is inverted
  --normalize      Whether the weights of the provided ASCII characters are normalized
```

Example:

```bash
ascii-art examples/images/einstein.jpg --width 100 --height 50 --font "Courier" --invert --normalize
```

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By default, the command will output the generated ASCII art to the console. If instead you would like to output to a file, feel free to use the redirection `>` operator. More info on that [here](https://linuxcommand.org/lc3_lts0070.php).

## License

This software is released under the terms of [MIT license](LICENSE).