Software

AA-project
History of AA-project and a gallery.
http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/

Alan's IOCCC Entry
Spin 3D shapes into ASCII art.
http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/ioccc/

Alternate's ASCII Artist
A tiny Windows program which can convert Windows bitmaps into ASCII art. Very minimal interface. Full Win32 SDK C++ Source code is Included (Open-Source under the zlib/libpng license).
http://alterlife.org/asciiartist/

Artist Mode for Emacs
Artist is an Emacs lisp package that allows you to draw lines, rectangles, squares, poly-lines, ellipses and circles by using your mouse and/ or keyboard.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~tab/artist/

ASCII Art Ensemble
Supporting the development of new free tools and software to create your own ASCII media converter.
http://www.desk.org/a/a/e/first.html

ASCII Art Generator
Generate ASCII art from image and text.
http://ascii.mastervb.net/

ASCII Art Info
Free online tool to convert online images to ASCII characters. With colorizing and multiple font sizes.
http://www.ascii-art.org

ASCII Art Studio
ASCII Art editor. Supports text editing mode and graphic editing mode. View ANSI art. Convert between picture and ASCII Art, multiple undo/ redo, print.
http://www.torchsoft.com/en/aas_information.html

ASCII Convert
Converts any image to ASCII text images online.
http://asciiconvert.com

ASCII Editor Beta
Software to make and colour ASCII art. ASCII Editor 4.1 Beta, BMP2ASCII converter, ANSI viewer.
http://studenten.freepage.de/meph/ascii/ascii.htm

ASCII Generator dotNET
Open-source image to text converter, with support for variable width fonts.
http://ascgen2.sourceforge.net/

Ascii Graffiti
Web application for creating color ASCII-style drawings using a javascript-based editor.
http://www.asciigraffiti.com

ASCII Jam
A free online ASCII graphics editor with private and groupware modes. Create color and traditional ASCII pictures and export to PDF and HTML formats. Java enabled browser required.
http://artcontext.net/act/01/asciiJam/

ASCII Mailer
Sends the recipient an ASCII art picture with a personalized message. The idea came from a REXX program called Oi.
http://jamian.net/asciimailer/

ASCII Pic
Program to convert bitmaps (*.bmp) and JPEGs (*.jpg) into plain text files (*.txt).
http://www.ykwong.com/asciipic.html

ASCII Pumper by Lampiasis
Offers an open source program which requires the .NET Framework 2.0 to colorize ASCII art with mIRC color codes.
http://code.google.com/p/asciipumper/

ASCIIfier
Allows you to upload images and turn them into ASCII art at the click of a button.
http://asciifier.co.uk

Asciifier
Convert an image, or all the images within a web page, into a pixel-perfect copy made only of text.
http://www.chaucery.com/fun/asciifier/

Asciimator
A web application which allows everybody to create ASCII animations, publish them and insert into their own web pages.
http://www.asciimator.net

AskiArt for PalmOS
Free palm application to display ASCII art. These arts can be static or dynamic. Create, beam and share animated ASCII arts on PalmOS. Includes a club for people who use the software.
http://www.geocities.com/askiart/

BG_ASCII
An interactive ASCII graphic tool. Creates pictures and artistic text made of ASCII characters. Programmed by Boris A. Glazer.
http://mazaika.tripod.com/bgascii.html

Bmp2Ansi
A freeware bmp to ANSI converter. This program is useful when you want to create a logo for nfo-files.
http://home.student.utwente.nl/j.oortwijn/products/software/bmp2ansi/index.html

Characterizer
Freeware "One form" application for converting images to ASCII text (ASCII art).
http://www.aolej.com/free.html#Chara

Code is My Life: ASCII Arts
Compose own your ASCII art by uploading an image, which is then automatically transformed to text art.
http://www.codeismylife.com/ascii-art/

Cthrough Technologies
Design text art with Bit Macro Studio. View and play text movies with Macro Media Player. Post your text creations under the macros section.
http://www.cthroughtech.com

Divxmania Image Artworks
An online script that convert any given image in HTML/ ASCII text.
http://pic2text.divxmania.it

EDASCII
EDASCII is an ASCII art editor for Linux. It allows a fast and easy manipulation of ASCII drawings.
http://www.naskita.com/linux/edascii/edascii.shtml

Email Effects
A powerful GUI ASCII art editor for Windows or Macintosh, including picture and table conversion and Figlet support.
http://www.sigsoftware.com/emaileffects/

FABS - Flexible ASCII Banner Software
FABS is a program for making banners, except it uses ASCII characters for the fonts. Sort of like Figlet program turned sideways.
http://www.angelfire.com/il/fabs/

GIF2TXT
Convert gifs into ASCII pictures. Script to use online, not a download.
http://www.degraeve.com/gif2txt.shtml

IcoText
Convert a icon To text art.
http://www.geocities.com/icotext/

Image2Ascii Competition 2001
From a discussion in alt.ascii-art. The intention is to compare different image2ascii converters and also to see how ASCII artists do that kind of conversion by hand.
http://www.jave.de/image2ascii/competition2001/index.html

IMG2ASCII
A PHP program, that generates ASCII images from JPG, GIF or PNG images. There are several options to alter the generated output, such as color, inversed color, font sizes, background color, line height or letter spacing.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/img2ascii/

Jave
Free java ASCII versatile editor. Rather than for editing texts, it is intended for drawing simple diagrams by using ASCII characters.
http://www.jave.de

Libcaca
A colour ASCII art library. For Unix, DOS and Windows to draw colour text and transform images into ASCII art graphics. It also lets you play ASCII art Doom or Quake under Linux.
http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/

Magic ASCII Studio
An ASCII art generation platform. You can make ASCII art words, photos and animations. Take an image and process it to an HTML, RTF or BMP file.
http://www.xoyosoft.com/mas

NegaZer0 Genera
Creates text-based images using a variety of intuitive tools. Features a string list and an ASCII table. The formatting bar can hold up to five different font formats.
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/metric/471/

Pablo Tools
Offers Pabloview, an NFO viewer and Pablodraw, a multi-user ANSI editor. Both support ANSI characters and are designed for Windows. Pablodraw is also open source, and an older version is available for DOS.
http://pablo.etoxn.ca/

Pic2ascii
Designed to transform bitmap images to ASCII, text art.
http://www.pizzinini.net/?category=8&item=40&language=en

Rumey's Block Letter Software
Download link for BLOCK ASCII letter generator software.
http://www.geocities.com/rumeyj/asciiart/asciiart.html

SigZag
Freeware to create personalized signatures. Includes a library of ASCII art pictures. Use figlet fonts, and taglines. Convert normal text into the multi-line representation of the characters.
http://www.5star-network.com/Windows/Internet/Email/sigzag.html

TextDraw and Imagetrix
TextDraw is a full-color ASCII art editor. Imagetrix converts images to text. Choose from several image effects to alter the conversion. Save the converted text as HTML, RTF, JPG, BMP, TXT or TDF (TextDraw Document Format).
http://www.pixio.biz/

ToolPanel.org ASCII Generator
A web-based software which generates ASCII images of png, jpg and gif images.
http://www.toolpanel.org/imagestuff/asciigenerator/

Tribute to Text Mode Games
Virtual museum for games using only 16 colors and the 255 symbols in the IBM-extended ASCII character set. Download, play, and admire these gems from a simpler time in computing.
http://www.textmodegames.com/

The ULTed Home Page
A utility program for drawing and colorizing ASCII art.
http://www.ultsoftware.com/ulted.htm