image2springbanner

Small tool written in Java to convert images to spring-boot banner text resource.

Credits

Almost all the code comes from the Spring Boot PR by Craig Burke. When the PR is available in a Spring Boot release (probably 1.4), this project will no longer be of interest.

Get it

Pre-built jar

Click here to download.

From source

Clone the project then in the project dir enter :

mvn package

The jar will be in the target directory

Usage

usage: java -jar image2springbanner.jar <IMAGE_FILE> [-c] [-d] [-M <arg>]
       [-o <arg>] [-r <arg>]
Create a Spring Boot banner from an image
 -c,--cie94                whether to use CIE94 algo (default is false)
 -d,--dark                 whether to invert image for a dark background.
                           (default is false)
 -M,--max-width <arg>      maximum width in characters of banner (default
                           is 72)
 -o,--output <arg>         output file path (default is ./banner.txt)
 -r,--aspect-ratio <arg>   correction to makes sure height is correct to
                           accomodate the fact that fonts are taller than
                           they are wide. (default is 0.5)

Example :

java -jar image2springbanner.jar src/main/resources/banner.jpg -M140 -d -o src/main/resources/banner.txt