Python's Pillow and numpy packages.
To get these packages, run pip3 install Pillow numpy
I recommend you run the command above in a virtual environment created with python3 -m venv {environment_name}
Clone the repo. Then, run python3 image_to_ascii {input_filename} {height} {optional:output_filename}
If the output_filename is specified, then the ascii art is written onto that file. Otherwise, ascii art gets printed on the terminal.
Below are two example output of the code. I used arbitrary heights with these two images, so a different height may result in better quality.
