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gelinger777/escpos-tools
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[](#escpos-command-line-tools-)

This repository provides command-line utilities for extracting information from binary ESC/POS data. ESC/POS is a page description language that is commonly used for receipt printing.

Currently we have a prototype ESC/POS parser, which can extract the commands contained in printable ESC/POS binary data, and render them to various formats.

Quick start
-----------

[](#quick-start)

This project is requires:

- PHP 5.6 or better
- The `mbstring` and `imagick` extensions
- [composer](https://getcomposer.org/)

To install from source:

```
git clone https://github.com/receipt-print-hq/escpos-tools
cd escpos-tools
composer install
```

Included utilities
------------------

[](#included-utilities)

### esc2text

[](#esc2text)

`esc2text` extracts text and line breaks from binary ESC/POS files.

- [esc2text documentation](doc/esc2text.md)

### esc2html

[](#esc2html)

`esc2html` converts binary ESC/POS files to HTML.

- [esc2html documentation](doc/esc2html.md)

### escimages

[](#escimages)

`escimages` extracts graphics from binary ESC/POS files in PBM and PNG format.

- [escimages documentation](doc/escimages.md)

Contribute
----------

[](#contribute)

- [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)

Licensing
---------

[](#licensing)

- [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md)

###  Health Score

32

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LowBetter than 72% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity72

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 89.2% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

1886d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/184276?v=4)[gelinger777](/maintainers/gelinger777)[@gelinger777](https://github.com/gelinger777)

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Top Contributors

[![mike42](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2080552?v=4)](https://github.com/mike42 "mike42 (83 commits)")[![gelinger777](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/184276?v=4)](https://github.com/gelinger777 "gelinger777 (3 commits)")[![asoneji](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5489067?v=4)](https://github.com/asoneji "asoneji (2 commits)")[![Stenerson](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1191049?v=4)](https://github.com/Stenerson "Stenerson (1 commits)")[![A-Rotsaert](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4537077?v=4)](https://github.com/A-Rotsaert "A-Rotsaert (1 commits)")[![welcoMattic](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/773875?v=4)](https://github.com/welcoMattic "welcoMattic (1 commits)")[![KlustoR](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8826011?v=4)](https://github.com/KlustoR "KlustoR (1 commits)")[![rotsaert-andy](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4537077?v=4)](https://github.com/rotsaert-andy "rotsaert-andy (1 commits)")

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Tags

printerbarcodeEpsonescposreceipt-printer

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