Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl>
* Package name : brailleimg Upstream Author : yours truly * URL : https://github.com/kilobyte/brailleimg * License : you're asking tricky questions... Programming Lang: Perl Description : convert images to text abusing Unicode This tool takes an image and converts it to a dot matrix text representation using the Unicode range U+2800..28FF. This allows to hold an image at a resolution of 2×4 pixels per character used. . Certain fonts show those glyphs as a matrix of empty and filled circles, which is readable only at a very high DPI and/or font size. . Alas, most actual Braille readers provide only a single row, thus making these images hard to see by real blind people. . Also included is braillegraph, a simple graphing tool that makes single-series histograms. It has been proposed, but rejected, to incorporate this into catimg (ITP #852878) -- its upstream prefers KISS. That tool produces images at a far less resolution (2×2 or 4×4 times less) but in color. Color looks nice, but limits catimg's use to catting to a terminal, less -R or ansi2html, while black&white brailleimg can be used anywhere Unicode text can go.
