DNjournal reports photo2text.com $19k.

[touchring]

http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm

Photo2text.com, check out, weirdest service i've ever seen. :o

[mwbseiso]

:o

:o indeed

[jose]

How do you say Photo2text in Japanese and Korean?

This is very old and well known on The Scene (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene) for ages, used for .nfo files.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene

They just put to run one of the many free ASCII art generators avaliable out there, with a template and a form on top.
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3683.html
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3742.html