Enter plain text to get its binary code equivalent, or paste binary digits (space-separated 8-bit groups) to decode them back into readable text. Choose your conversion direction — Text → Binary or Binary → Text — and the translator handles the rest using ASCII/UTF-8 encoding.
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To convert binary to text, split the binary string into 8-bit groups (bytes). Convert each byte from base-2 to a decimal number, then look up that decimal value in the ASCII table to find the corresponding character. For example, 01000001 = 65 in decimal = 'A' in ASCII.
To convert text to binary, take each character in your text, find its ASCII decimal value, then convert that decimal number to an 8-bit binary string. For example, 'A' has ASCII code 65, which is 01000001 in binary.
The binary value 01000001 equals decimal 65, which corresponds to the uppercase letter 'A' in ASCII encoding. You can verify this by adding the place values: 2^6 + 2^0 = 64 + 1 = 65.
The binary value 00110000 equals decimal 48, which corresponds to the character '0' (zero) in ASCII encoding. ASCII reserves decimal values 48–57 for the digit characters 0 through 9.
This translator uses ASCII/UTF-8 encoding. ASCII assigns a unique 7-bit (padded to 8-bit) numeric code to 128 characters including letters, digits, and symbols. UTF-8 is backward-compatible with ASCII for the standard 128 characters.
Yes. When converting binary to text, you can paste binary digits with spaces between each 8-bit group (e.g. 01001000 01100101). The translator will automatically parse the groups and decode them to their corresponding characters.
In standard ASCII encoding, each character is represented by 8 bits (1 byte). So the word 'Hello' is 5 characters × 8 bits = 40 bits total. UTF-8 characters outside the basic ASCII range may use 2–4 bytes per character.
Binary code is the fundamental language of computers. All data — text, images, audio, programs — is ultimately stored and processed as binary (0s and 1s). Understanding binary is essential in computing, networking, cryptography, and digital electronics.