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Is there any application to convert a gif file to txt file in linux?

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    And what would you want to see in that text file? A gif is not text. A gif is an image. If you want to see the text open it with a hex editor and it will show text in base 16. – Rinzwind Jul 09 '18 at 18:33
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    Please clarify - do you have an image of text that you wish to convert using OCR - or a general image that you want to display as ASCII-art? or something else? – steeldriver Jul 09 '18 at 18:35
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    It's an old thread but might this one help? https://askubuntu.com/questions/59389/how-can-i-extract-text-from-images – graham Jul 09 '18 at 19:03
  • Actually I have a .gif file that contains some text and I want to convert that text to a .txt file – Badusha k Jul 10 '18 at 09:27
  • Could you please [edit] your post when you want to clarify something or add information? It’s best to have everything relevant in one place. Additionally, comments may be deleted for various reasons. Thanks. – David Foerster Jul 10 '18 at 09:33

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I think you are looking for gif2txt This GitHub project appears to be able to convert even multi-image gifs to ASCII art. Here's an example source image:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hit9/gif2txt/gh-pages/test.gif

and example output:

https://hit9.github.io/gif2txt/out.html

Elder Geek
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