hectorm / chafa-wasm

Chafa WebAssembly module to convert images to text.

Chafa WebAssembly module

Have you ever wanted to convert an image into a much less efficient and lower quality text representation? No? Well, with this module you can.

With this Chafa port to WebAssembly you can convert an image into various text formats like ANSI escape codes, HTML or console.log arguments in Node.js, Deno, Bun and web browsers.

This module uses Emscripten/Embind to expose low-level bindings of libchafa and also includes a higher-level API for the most common scenarios, see the docs/ directory for details.

If you just want to play with the parameters interactively, a demo application is also available here.

Usage

Installation

npm install chafa-wasm

Example code

import { promises as fs } from "node:fs";
import { promisify } from "node:util";
import { stdout } from "node:process";
import Chafa from "chafa-wasm";

const chafa = await Chafa();
const imageToAnsi = promisify(chafa.imageToAnsi);

const image = await fs.readFile("./example.png");
const { ansi } = await imageToAnsi(image.buffer, {
  width: 80,
  fontRatio: 0.5,
  colors: 0,
  colorExtractor: 0,
  colorSpace: 0,
  symbols: "block+border+space-wide-inverted",
  fill: "none",
  fg: 0xffffff,
  bg: 0x000000,
  fgOnly: false,
  dither: 0,
  ditherGrainWidth: 4,
  ditherGrainHeight: 4,
  ditherIntensity: 1,
  preprocess: true,
  threshold: 0.5,
  optimize: 5,
  work: 5,
});

stdout.write(ansi);