# de-ASCII > de-ASCII reconstructs bounded PNG images from ASCII art. Paste or upload ASCII and get a color-preserving deterministic reconstruction back, with optional AI restoration that preserves the current image and visible text. Part of the PlatPhorm News network. de-ASCII reconstructs a bounded raster image from arbitrary pasted ASCII, ANSI terminal art, Unicode Braille, Unicode block/quadrant/box-drawing art, and output from image-to-ASCII converters. Given the characters, terminal controls, and any embedded color, it estimates per-cell luminance and color and renders a bounded PNG with tonal, hybrid, or glyph-aware texture. Glyph and hybrid modes include bitmap masks for Latin letters, digits, Braille dot cells, block/box glyphs, and common text marks. ANSI foreground/background, 16-color, 256-color, truecolor, bold/faint, inverse, cursor, erase, and tab sequences are parsed best-effort. Monochrome ASCII can be deterministically colorized with smart scene inference, portrait, cool, warm, or API-supplied palettes. Optional AI enhancement uses an image model as restoration against the deterministic output, preserving composition and visible text rather than creating a new image. This site is part of the PlatPhorm News developer utility network. ## Direct answer de-ASCII is a browser, API, and MCP tool that reconstructs PNG images from arbitrary pasted ASCII, ANSI terminal art, Unicode Braille/block/box-drawing art, and ASCII generated by ascii.platphormnews.com. It preserves embedded color when present, estimates luminance and color for monochrome sources, includes text-oriented glyph reconstruction, and can optionally run an AI restoration pass without requiring a reference photo or inventing new text. ## Capabilities - Deterministic reconstruction from monochrome or colored ASCII/ANSI art - Best-effort parser for arbitrary pasted ASCII, ANSI SGR/cursor terminal art, Unicode Braille, blocks, quadrants, box drawing, and punctuation-heavy animation frames - URL-fragment import for small payloads and trusted postMessage import from ascii.platphormnews.com or v2a.platphormnews.com for full payloads, using compact line-preserving ASCII plus exact expanded hex color grids or compact rgb24-b64-v1 color grids - Deterministic colorization presets for monochrome ASCII when original color data is absent - Charset auto-detection (standard, detailed, blocks, minimal, braille) - Adjustable cell size, render mode, edge-aware smoothing, inversion, contrast, sharpening, and background - Text-oriented reconstruction preset for small code, signs, UI labels, captions, and literal ASCII text - Optional AI restoration/enhancement of the current reconstruction without inventing new scene content or text - PNG output as base64 data URL ## Primary endpoints - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/ — interactive tool - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/embed — iframe-friendly embedded tool - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/api/deascii — POST ASCII, receive reconstructed PNG (public) - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/api/deascii/from-ascii — POST trusted ASCII converter request, receive reconstructed PNG (public) - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/api/deascii/status — GET renderer limits and AI enhancement readiness (public) - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/api/charsets — GET supported charsets (public) - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/api/info — GET service metadata (public) - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/api/health — GET health check (public) - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/api/network/status — GET root graph and MCP gateway integration status (public) - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/api/webhooks — POST event subscription (protected: PLATPHORM_API_KEY) - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/api/mcp — Model Context Protocol JSON-RPC endpoint - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/openapi.json — OpenAPI 3.1 specification - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/openapi.yaml — YAML-compatible OpenAPI 3.1 specification - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/llms-index.json — machine-readable discovery index - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/humans.txt — human ownership and technology notes - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/rss.xml — public feed - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/.well-known/mcp.json — MCP server descriptor - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/blog — product notes and discoverable guides - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/blog/deascii-1-0-launch — de-ASCII 1.0 launch guide - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/roadmap — 136-day roadmap for compact streams, replay quality gates, and browser-game asset reconstruction - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/sharecard — generated share card / social preview image ## Localized entry points - en: https://deascii.platphormnews.com — Reconstruct images from ASCII art - es: https://deascii.platphormnews.com/es — Reconstruye imagenes desde arte ASCII - fr: https://deascii.platphormnews.com/fr — Reconstruire des images depuis l'art ASCII - de: https://deascii.platphormnews.com/de — Bilder aus ASCII-Art rekonstruieren - pt-BR: https://deascii.platphormnews.com/pt-br — Reconstrua imagens a partir de arte ASCII - ja: https://deascii.platphormnews.com/ja — ASCIIアートから画像を再構築 ## Discoverability keywords deASCII, de-ASCII, ASCII to image, ASCII art reconstruction, ANSI art to PNG, ANSI color reconstruction, ANSI background color reconstruction, ANSI terminal art reconstruction, Unicode Braille art reconstruction, box drawing ASCII reconstruction, image from ASCII, ASCII decoder, ASCII converter inverse, photo reconstruction from ASCII art, AI image restoration, text preserving ASCII reconstruction, MCP image tool, LLM-readable image utility, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, PlatPhorm News developer tools ## Blog - de-ASCII final polish upgrades readable reconstruction and game asset scaffolds: https://deascii.platphormnews.com/blog/final-polish-readable-reconstruction-game-scaffold — The final go-live polish adds universal best-effort ASCII/ANSI parsing, text-focused reconstruction guidance, restoration-only AI instructions, compact ASCII handoff discipline, and a reusable browser-safe module for turning ASCII into game level, texture, sign, sprite, and UI asset manifests. - The road to November 19, 2026: ASCII streams become browser game assets: https://deascii.platphormnews.com/blog/november-19-2026-game-asset-roadmap — The de-ASCII roadmap for November 19, 2026 focuses on trusted ASCII streams that reconstruct into browser-game levels, texture tiles, readable signs, sprites, and UI assets with BrowserOps and Evals quality gates. - de-ASCII 1.0 turns ASCII art back into image output: https://deascii.platphormnews.com/blog/deascii-1-0-launch — A practical guide to de-ASCII 1.0: deterministic ASCII to image reconstruction, ANSI color preservation, embeddable UI, MCP support, text-readable reconstruction, and optional AI restoration. ## Roadmap - 136-day focus: stream trusted ASCII from ascii.platphormnews.com into browser runtimes, reconstruct compact exact-color payloads as levels, textures, signs, sprites, and UI/game assets, and gate releases with replay fixtures and BrowserOps/Evals evidence. - Roadmap URL: https://deascii.platphormnews.com/roadmap ## Authentication Public surfaces require no key. Protected and mutating operations accept `Authorization: Bearer ` or `X-PlatPhorm-API-Key: `. ## Network - PlatPhorm News (https://www.platphormnews.com) — Flagship developer news and the network hub. - ASCII Art Converter (https://ascii.platphormnews.com) — Convert images into ASCII art — the inverse of de-ASCII. - V2A (https://v2a.platphormnews.com) — Convert browser-local video and webcam frames into quality-scored ASCII streams and compact chroma handoffs. - PlatPhorm MCP Hub (https://mcp.platphormnews.com) — Registry and gateway for network MCP servers. - Ph3ar Community (https://ph3ar.com) — Community space for the PlatPhorm News network. ## Full documentation - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/llms-full.txt - https://deascii.platphormnews.com/docs