---
license: agpl-3.0
configs:
- config_name: asciiart
  default: true
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: "asciiart/train/*.parquet"
- config_name: copypasta
  default: false
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: "copypasta/train/*.parquet"
- config_name: graffiti
  default: false
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: "graffiti/train/*.parquet"
- config_name: images
  default: false
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: "images/train/*.parquet"
---

# ASCII Art

## Description

Collection of ASCII art from various sources:

- `asciiart`: made by independent artists, listed on [asciiart.eu][source-asciiart]
- `copypasta`: common twitch emotes, listed on [twitchquotes.com][source-twitchquotes]
- `graffiti`: text samples styled using various ASCII art fonts with [a tool][github-graffiti-tool]
- `images`: conversion of a portion of the dataset [DataCompDR-12M][huggingface-dataset] using [a tool][github-conversion-tool]

## Metadata

- homepage: [https://github.com/apehex/scrapscii][github-scrapscii]
- version: 1.0.0

| Config            | Split     | Size      | Samples   |
| ----------------- | --------- | --------- | --------- |
| 'asciiart'        | 'train'   | 1.8 MB    | 5293      |
| 'copypasta'       | 'train'   | 488 KB    | 909       |
| 'graffiti'        | 'train'   | 25 MB     | 21504     |
| 'images'          | 'train'   | 22 MB     | 11264     |

## Features

All the features of the dataset are textual:

```python
datasets.Features({
    'caption': datasets.features.Value(dtype='string'),
    'content': datasets.features.Value(dtype='string'),
    'labels': datasets.features.Value(dtype='string'),
    'charsets': datasets.features.Value(dtype='string'),
    'chartypes': datasets.features.Value(dtype='string'),})
```

- `caption`:
    - a brief description of the "image"
    - for example `"Undertale Sans full body"`
    - can be empty
- `content`:
    - the actual ASCII art, in UTF-8 encoding
    - for example `"(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ FLIP THAT TABLE.\r\n┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(°□°ヽ) FLIP THIS TABLE."`
    - is never empty
- `labels`:
    - a list of tags, separated by commas
    - the set of tags depends on the dataset
    - for example `"Cartoons,Smurfs"`
    - can be empty
- `charsets`:
    - the [Unicode sections][unicode-nameslist] of the characters in the AA
    - for example `"Braille Patterns,ASCII C0"`
    - "C0 Controls and Basic Latin" is renamed "ASCII C0"
    - "C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement" is renamed "ASCII C1"
    - is never empty
- `chartypes`:
    - the [types of characters][wiki-category] in the AA
    - for example `"Punctuations,Others,Symbols,Letters"`
    - is never empty

[github-conversion-tool]: https://github.com/TheZoraiz/ascii-image-converter
[github-graffiti-tool]: https://github.com/sepandhaghighi/art
[github-scrapscii]: https://github.com/apehex/scrapscii/
[huggingface-dataset]: https://huggingface.co/datasets/apple/DataCompDR-12M
[source-asciiart]: https://www.asciiart.eu/
[source-twitchquotes]: https://www.twitchquotes.com/
[unicode-nameslist]: https://www.unicode.org/charts/nameslist/
[wiki-category]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_character_property#General_Category