File Scan Visualizer

Turn any file into a colored ASCII pixel map — readable bytes in yellow, noisy bytes in blue, and raw binary in white.

This program acts like an extened 'strings' type utility to aid finding interesting strings within binary files.

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🔧 Features

• 🔍 Shows printable vs. non-printable characters
• 🌈 Colored output: Yellow (readable text), Blue (*), White (.)
• 🧠 Intelligent text detection: runs of 3+ readable chars shown as actual text
• 📄 Supports binary files and long input files
• 🛠️ Optional --text-only mode to extract just the readable strings

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🚀 Usage

python3 main.py <filename> [--width WIDTH] [--text-only]

Using uv

uv run main.py <filename> [--width WIDTH] [--text-only]