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  • Image to Text Converters (Windows)
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ASCII & ANSI Editors for MS DOS and Windows
The Draw 4.61 - ASCII/ANSI Editor (PC/MS DOS) - 291KB TheDraw is a DOS tool to create and modify ASCIIs and ANSIs, especially ANSIs and block ASCIIs which are not supported by Windows anymore. The program runs stable in a DOS Window and even the mouse is still working. I personally use TheDraw since 1992 as replacement for the crappy tool "AnsiDraw" which I have also available, if you like "pain" hehe. I never made the switch to ACiDDraw as so many others, even if it had some more features than TheDraw which was IMO superior to ACiDView at the beginning. You will probably have a bit of a hard time if DOS is completely alien to you, but give it a shot anyway. It's fun.
ACiDDraw V1.25 - ANSI Editor for MS DOS - 82KB In the early ninties was the ASCII and ANSI text art scene split in half. Not really as bad as you might think though. The artists at that time either used ACiDDraw or TheDraw, the only two editiors that provided the features needed by the leading text artists. TheDraw was the older one and lead the pack for a while, but ACiDDraw catched up and became towards the end of the MS DOS and BBS realm the predominant editor. It's greatest feature was the support of virtually unlimited lines on ANSI vs TheDraw which was limited to a maximum of 100 lines. Artists that created ANSI's beyond 100 lines were rare though.
PabloDraw V0.92 - for MSDOS - 377 KB The MS DOS version of the popular Windows Editor with the same name. If you want to go with a MS DOS editor rather than a Windows one (e.g. if you are a Macintosh user), you are better off using TheDraw or ACiDDraw. Windows users should use the Windows version of this editor. I only put the DOS version up for history sake.
PabloDraw V2.0.8.70. (Src.Code) - Text Editor for Windows PC - 530KB Previous versions: V2.0.7.44. (Src.Code), V2.0.6.35. (Src.Code), V2.0.5., V2.0.3., V2.0.2., V1.0.98., original Who said ANSI and ASCII is dead? Well, welcome to ANSI design in Web 2.0. This WINDOWS ANSI editor works online and allows you to hook up with multiple people and mess around in the same ANSI file and chat at the same time. After the "it" or "mash"" is "done", excuse me, BETA. People often have a hard time to make sense out that online "collaboration" between the artists who are all happy about that fact hehe. I think I am too old for this, but I don't like it personally. This does not mean that it would not be perfect for you. Give it a shot. PabloDraw is using DirectX and supports full screen mode (640x400, 640x480), 80x50, 80x25 and Amiga font support, always-on VGA preview pane, draw and chat with your friends with multi-user editing, full ANSI editing capabilities, keyboard shortcuts similar to other popular DOS-based editors, loads binary, ANSI, and ASCII files, and more
ASCII Factory V0.6 - Simple ASCII Editor for Windows - 782 KB ASCII Factory was developed by some members of my art scene group Superior Art Creations (SAC). The basic functions of this editor work, but you can tell that it is and remained still in beta. It also does not support ANSI and only colorless ASCII, which is kind of a bummer. It is more of a novelty and you are better off using any of the other editors available on this page.
Tundra Draw 0.5 Beta 1 - ANSI Editor for Windows - 4.4 MB This fairly new editor gained some popularity, but I have to be honest, I haven't even looked at it yet. I stick to what I know, which is TheDraw for MS DOS. But this editor might be an alternative to PabloDraw for Windows which I heard from some is quite cumbersome to use. TundraDraw is a cross-platform ANSI drawing program written with C++, using the Qt Toolkit.
TetraDraw V2.0.2 - ANSI Editor Source Code - 265 KB Code by John McCutchan. He released it under the GPL license so feel free to utilize the code as you see fit in yout own application. See the readme. file within the archive for compiling instructions.
ElyEdit V1.3(Win32) - BBS Text Editor - 331 KB This editor for Windows supports everything BUT ANSI. It supports ASCII and numerous proprietary color code formats from various BBS systems from back in the days, including Wildcat (WC), PCBoard (PCB), pipe, SANSI / SANSI databases, Sync, Telegard (TG), and Adept color codes.
Ansidraw V2.4 - (very) Old ASCII/ANSI Editor (PC/MS DOS) - 20KB I am warning you, this tool from Amrich Enterprises was written at the end of the eighties and the oldest ANSI editor I know about for the PC. I am amazed by the fact that it is still running on Windows machines almost no other tools do. Well, It was even back then when it was "new" already a pain in the butt. Note when you do ANSI. You can save an ANSI, but you can not load it. Only ASCIIs can be loaded. Nothing can be beyond 23 Lines that's all what it got. READ the main key combinations screen when the program starts. Trust me, you will "regret it" if you don't. Okay. You get out by either terminating the window :) or the very obvious and common key combination SHIFT-F10. Here are some other keyboard short-cuts that might help. I created about 10-12 ANSIs with this piece of junk until the salvation came in the form of TheDraw!

ANSI Viewers for MS DOS and Windows
PabloView V0.91 - ASCII/ANSI Viewer for Windows PC - 380KB Written by Curtis Wensley aka Eto who also wrote the currently popular Windows ANSI editor PabloDraw. The viewer supports: Ansi/Avatar/XBin/Idf/Adf/Binary/CG character files, RIP vector files and Jpeg/Gif/Png/Tiff/Bmp image files in addition to features like modem speed simulation (some ANSIs (animations) were timed for that) and VGA display modes.
ACiD View 6.1 - ANSI & ASCII Viewer (PC/Win) - 226KB ACiDView for Windows is actually one of the few tools that can display ANSI and block ASCII 100% correctly under Windows (no DOS Window). ACiDView for MS DOS was a very popular viewer back in the days. It was always distributed for free with every months ACiD art package. The DOS version of ACiDView (which has more features) does not run under Windows 2K or XP. I still recommend to use this Windows version of the tool.
ACiDView V4.63 - ASCII/ANSI Viewer for MS DOS - 180KB The classic ACiD Viewer whos latest version was always delivered with each new ACiD art pack that was released. It was pretty much the standard viewer used by most people. I was unfortunately not able to get it to work properly under Windows XP. It keeps crashing. I decided to put it up for download anyway. Unless you plan to run it on an old machine or use a MS DOS emulator software like DOS BOX, download the Windows 32 version of the viewer instead (also available for download here on this site).

VGA Editors (for DOS only)
Deluxe Paint II Enhanced V3.0 - Image Editor (PC/MS DOS) - 547KB Deluxe Paint was THE pixel graphics tool on the AMIGA 500. The PC version came a bit later and development was not continued on the PC like on the Amiga, where DP made it to version 4 before it was stopped there as well. It was still ahead of its time when it came out. At that time was MS Paint for Windows 3.0 quite "hip" and "Autodesk Animator" (the maker of AutoCad) the McLaren F1 of PC pixel software. This version of Deluxe Paint is the "enhanced version" which supports "Super VGA" (256 colors BEYOND 320x200) to some degree (not really, but they made an effort). It should still run on most people's Windows XP PC.
Deluxe Paint Animation - Image Editor (PC/MS DOS) - 374KB Deluxe Paint Animation was a special version of Deluxe Paint that supported the creation of animations in the propriatary format .ANM. It only supports the standard VGA resolution of 320x200 pixels and 256 colors. Animation features were part of the standard feature of newer versions of DP on the Amiga, which were not ported to the IBM PC. There is a video codec for Windows that enables the playback of Deluxe Paint Animation files via Windows Media Player. You can download the Deluxe Paint Animation ANM codec here (94 KB).
Autodesk Animator Pro - Image Editor (PC/MS DOS) - 1,100 KB Autodesk Animator Pro is a very function rich image editor for MS DOS that also has many nice tools and functionalities to create animations (videos). The program works with GIF and PCX images and uses the videos format .FLI for the animations. The editor supports Super VGA. I believe up to a resolution of 1024x768 and 256 Colors. The animator features are limited to standard VGA as far as I can recall. To enable the playback of .FLV video animations via Windows Media Player, you have to install a codec for FLV files. You can download two FLV codecs here (371 KB). Read the "readme.txt" file that is included in the zip archive, which explains how to install the codec on your Microsoft Windows computer.

Image to Text Converters (Windows)
MagicSoft Image to Ansi/Ascii for Windows - 216 KB A simple tool to convert Photos and Images to ANSI. The conversion to ASCII is still very crude and does not produce very good results.
ASCII Generator .NET for Windows V0.9.6 - (ASCgen dotNet) - 130 KB Very feature rich Images to ANSI/ASCII converter, which produces great results. It allows adjustment of contrast and brightness in real time, also flipping and rotating of the original image. The results produced by ASCgen dotNet are the best that I have seen so far.

ANSI Tools for Web Servers
AnsiLove PHP 1.03 - Real Time Converter of ANSI/ASCII to PNG - 150 KB This web script written in PHP converts ANSI and ASCII to PNG format in real-time. I use this handy tool on my website for the galleries. I don't have the images on my server, but the original ANSIs and ASCIIs which will be rendered to the browser when the user requests it.

BBS'ing via Telnet

SyncTerm V0.9.0 Win32 - Open Source Terminal Software by Stephen Hurd - 816 KB SyncTerm is a free terminal software client (Software that is being used to call a bulletin board system via dial up or ISDN back in the days) that supports the display of IBM low and high ASCII, ANSI-BBS, ANSI Music, Character pacing for ANSI animation, VT500 ESC[*r sequence for dynamic speed changes, CGTerm Commodore 64 PETSCII and Atari 8-bit ATASCII in different screen modes, including 80x25, 80x28, 80x43, 80x50 and 80x60, as well as over 35 fonts already provided by SyncTERM with the ability to customize fonts. It is also available for other platforms such as Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X.