I came across Bruno Jobard's

In Archive by Fredy Ore

I came across Bruno Jobard’s ‘PicText Service’. An awesome online program that converts any JPG and GIF to ASCII ART online. Bruno is a PhD student in Scientific Visualization and Flow Visualization in the Laboratoire d’informatique du Littoral at the Universite du Littoral of Calais, France. :::
www-lil.univ-littoral.fr/~jobard/PictextService/