Image to text conversion Other programs like | pic2ascii allow one to automatically convert an image to text characters, which is a special case of vector quantization. A method commonly used samples the image down  grayscale with less than 8-bit precision, but this is optional. The program then scales down the image and assigns a character for each pixel of the image . Such ASCII art generators often allow users to choose the intensity and contrast of the generated image.
Image to text conversion Other programs allow one to automatically convert an image to text characters, which is a special case of vector quantization. A method is to sample the image down to grayscale with less than 8-bit precision, and then assign a character for each value . Such ASCII art generators often allow users to choose the intensity and contrast of the generated image.
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