Character Art

from PIL import Image

import pyfiglet

image_path = "books.png"

img = Image.open(image_path)

# resize the image

width, height = img.size

aspect_ratio = height/width

new_width = 60

new_height = aspect_ratio * new_width * 0.55

img = img.resize((new_width, int(new_height)))

# new size of image

# print(img.size)

# convert image to greyscale format

img = img.convert('L')

pixels = img.getdata()

# replace each pixel with a character from array

chars = ["=","+","#","&","@","$","%","*","!",":","."]

new_pixels = [chars[pixel//25] for pixel in pixels]

new_pixels = ''.join(new_pixels)

# split string of chars into multiple strings of length equal to new width and create a list

new_pixels_count = len(new_pixels)

ascii_image = [new_pixels[index:index + new_width] for index in range(0, new_pixels_count, new_width)]

ascii_image = "\n".join(ascii_image)

print(ascii_image)

result=pyfiglet.figlet_format("Happy teachers day")

print(result)