Ansifilter

If you are a programmer or web designer, you probably appreciate and understand the importance of having the right tool for the job, as it can greatly simplify your work.

Ansifilter is one of the applications that can come in handy whenever you want to strip ANSI codes from your text document or convert them to various other formats.

You don't need to install this application on your computer, as it is portable and simply unpacking the archive it comes in and launching the executable grants you access to its entire set of functions.

More so, it doesn't tamper with your Windows' registry entries, nor does it create additional files or folders on your PC without your explicit permission. You can also run it from removable storage media such as USB flash drives or external HDDs.

Ansifilter can help you strip ANSI codes from text documents on your computer and convert them to other formats in a convenient manner. It parses common ANSI codes in order to remove or convert them to other colored text format and features support for ANSI art files.

Among the supported output formats, you can find HTML, BBCode, Pango, RTF, LaTeX or TeX. This provides you with a broad range of possibilities.

This application comes in two "flavors," one with a Graphic User Interface (GUI) and one that can be operated through the Command Prompt. The one with a GUI is quite simple and lets you open files, copy the contents to clipboard, select the output format, enable ASCII art, assign a title, change the encoding, modify the line wrap value and choose the font.

The CMD one provides you with a large set of features that can be called through arguments. These can modify the output text formats, file names, encoding, font faces, titles, wrapping, parsing, ANSI art width and height and font size.

To wrap it up, Ansifilter is a lightweight, portable application that can help you parse ANSI codes in order to edit or convert them to other colored text formats. It comes in two versions: one with a GUI and one that's operated through CMD and can be used even by novices.