# Libcaca
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{{Short description|ASCII art software}}
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{{Infobox software
| title = libcaca
| name = libcaca
| logo = Libcaca-logo.png
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| developer = [Sam Hocevar](/source/Sam_Hocevar) and Jean-Yves Lamoureux
| released = {{Start date|2003|11|22}}(0.1 release)[{{cite web|last=Hocevar|first=Sam|title=Release 0.1 svn log|url=http://caca.zoy.org/changeset/208|accessdate=17 January 2013}}]
| discontinued =
| latest release version = 0.9
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2004|02|02}}[{{cite web|last=Hocevar|first=Sam|title=Release 0.9 svn log|url=http://caca.zoy.org/changeset/362/libcaca/trunk/NEWS|accessdate=17 January 2013}}]
| latest preview version = 0.99.beta20
| latest preview date = {{Start date and age|2021|10|19}}[{{cite web|last=Hocevar|first=Sam|url=https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca/releases/tag/v0.99.beta20|title=Release libcaca v0.99.beta20 · cacalabs/libcaca · GitHub|website=[GitHub](/source/GitHub) |accessdate=16 December 2021}}]
| programming language = [C](/source/C_(programming_language))
| operating system = [Unix-like](/source/Unix-like), [Windows](/source/Windows), [MS-DOS](/source/MS-DOS), [OS X](/source/OS_X)[{{cite web|last=Hocevar|first=Sam|title=libcaca Homepage|url=http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca|work=Caca Labs|accessdate=17 January 2013}}]
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| language = [English](/source/English_language)
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| license = [Free software](/source/Free_software): [WTFPL](/source/WTFPL)v2[
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thumbnail|An example Wikipedia logo generated using libcaca 0.99.beta18
'''libcaca''' is a [software library](/source/software_library) that converts images into colored [ASCII art](/source/ASCII_art). It includes the library itself, and several programs including '''cacaview''', an [image viewer](/source/image_viewer) that works inside a [terminal emulator](/source/terminal_emulator), and '''img2txt''', which can convert an image to other text-based formats.
==Overview==
libcaca has been used in a variety of programs, including [FFmpeg](/source/FFmpeg), [VLC media player](/source/VLC_media_player), and [MPlayer](/source/MPlayer).][{{cite web|title=FFmpeg 1.0 release notes|url=http://ffmpeg.org/archive.html#pr1.0|accessdate=20 December 2014|author=FFmpeg team|authorlink=FFmpeg}}][{{cite web|title=VLC Media Player: modules/caca|url=http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/caca|work=VLC Media Player documentation|accessdate=18 January 2013|author=VideoLAN Organization|authorlink=VideoLAN}}][{{cite web|title=libcaca – Color ASCII Art library|url=http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/caca.html|work=MPlayer documentation|accessdate=18 January 2013|author=MPlayer team|authorlink=MPlayer|at=4.10}}]
libcaca is [free software](/source/free_software), licensed under [WTFPL](/source/WTFPL) version 2.[{{Cite web |last=Martinez |first=Carlos Garcia |date=2024-06-03 |title=Exploring the Artistry and Legacy of ASCII Text Art |url=https://photo-to-text.com/ascii-text-art/ |access-date=2024-12-14 |language=en-US}}]
== Projects using libcaca ==
* [Gnuplot](/source/Gnuplot)
* [MPlayer](/source/MPlayer)[{{cite web|title=cacasink|url=http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-good-plugins/html/gst-plugins-good-plugins-plugin-cacasink.html|work=GStreamer Good Plugins 1.0 Plugins Reference Manual|accessdate=18 January 2013|author=GStreamer team|authorlink=GStreamer}}]
* [VLC media player](/source/VLC_media_player)