Converting in the other direction

Everybody knows about Jave and the proliferation of other tools for
converting raster graphics into ascii art.  I want to know if there's
something that can go the other direction -- and I mean more than a
screen capture.  I want a program that will turn ascii art into
clipart, raster or vector.  Does it exist?

vector wrote:

> Everybody knows about Jave and the proliferation of other tools for 
> converting raster graphics into ascii art.  I want to know if there's
>  something that can go the other direction -- and I mean more than a 
> screen capture.  I want a program that will turn ascii art into 
> clipart, raster or vector.  Does it exist?

Ascii to raster graphics is also supported by JavE: Menu File -> Ascii2Gif

There are various options: Choosing a font size of 1, 2 or 3 makes the
export work almost like the image2ascii algorithm the other way around.
You can get an idea of this feature, when looking at the thumbnail
browser screenshot at http://www.jave.de/screenshots/scr_thumb.gif. With
greater font sizes you get a screenshot tool equivalent.
There is also a "Pixel View" option, where more technical drawings (with
boxes) are brushed up by connecting rectangular shapes to real rectangles.

In general I don't know about any other kinds of conversion options in
this direction. For example what result do you expect when converting to
vector graphics - different from the text itself consisting of character
objects?

Markus
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