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You can also go in reverse by translating any text into binary code with this text to binary code converter.

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🔟 Binary Input length:	Unlimited
⚡ Speed of Conversion:	Instant!
➡️ Plain Text Output:	Display, Copy, Save
🎯 Conversion Accuracy:	100%
🔍 Binary to ASCII table:	Included
📋 Binary to Text Conversion Tutorial:	Available (Video + Text)

Read on to find more helpful information on the history of binary data to text conversions, how to Convert Binary to Text manually, and a fascinating video on making all the 1s and 0s less daunting to parse.

Why Use a Binary Translator to Convert Binary Code to Text?

Binary code is not commonly used to present information directly to people. While computers use binary digits to store, sort, and transmit data, they also translate all these 0s and 1s into other formats that are easier to understand.

There are several possible reasons you might want to use a binary translator. Even if you already know how to manually convert between binary code and different forms of text, it takes time. Quickly copying and pasting binary strings into a binary to text converter takes seconds, and your results are displayed just as fast. 

Binary is used as a very basic cipher to hide information, and this tool can help you decode it instantly. No matter where on the internet the text appears, you can effortlessly copy and paste the string into the first text box to translate it.

You might have to convert binary data as an assignment or solve a puzzle in a game where everything is expressed in binary data. Nerdy people out there, us included, love learning about the inner-workings of root computer language. The more tools you have to help you learn, the better.

To summarize it, the main reasons to use a binary translator over the manual conversion process are speed and convenience, however, learning how to manipulate and convert binary code yourself can be quite educational and useful.

Knowing how to convert binary to text is a pretty cool geek skill to add to your arsenal, too.

How Do I Manually Convert Binary Code to Text?

Binary system might look complicated: 0100100001101001 – how are we supposed to read that without a binary decoder?

Binary to Text: short Video Tutorial

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Once you get the hang of things, binary code isn’t so hard to translate, but it takes some getting used to. You are about to learn how to convert binary to English using ASCII character encoding.

Each string of 0s and 1s represents a decimal code on the ASCII characters table that translates to a letter. One letter represented in binary is eight digits, or bits long. For our purposes, once you have learned how to read in binary, things become as easy as counting to 26 (the number of letters in the English alphabet).

The Powers of 2

To begin with, you’ll need to use powers of 2 to construct the decimal. That might not sound intuitive at first but bear with the process. Start by writing out the binary figure. For this example, let’s use 01000011.

To visualize this easily, let’s write the binary figure, and above it, place powers of 2 above each digit.

Start from 2⁰ on the right side, and work left. This means 2 to the power 1 will be next, then 2 to the power of 2, and so on until you reach 2 to the power of 7.

Each power of 2 that corresponds to a 1 in the binary figure is kept and added together. From the right, you’ll take the first, second, and seventh powers and add them together, because there are only three ones in the binary figure 0100011, in those positions.

The sum of 2⁰, 2¹, and 2⁶ equals 67 (1+2+64). This basic conversion lets us know the decimal output of that binary figure.

The first three digits indicate the Case

When using a binary to English translator, the first three binary digits indicate if the letter is uppercase or lowercase.

If you add together just 2⁰ and 2¹, you’ll get 3. Since the third letter of the alphabet is C, we know that this binary figure represents the letter C.

For any binary figure, starting with 010 means the letter will be uppercase, and starting with 011 means the letter is lowercase.

Putting all that simple math together, you can translate binary manually. Just like we found out that 0100011 is capital C, you can convert other letters into English.

It’s as simple as that when you have all the decimal codes in front of you. A is equal to 1, B to 2, and so on until you hit Z at 26.

Each letter is eight digits in binary

When you are dealing with longer binary sequences, remember to separate each string by eight digits (bits). Each letter consists of only eight numbers.

You can use forward slashes to mark them out when you want to manually make any conversions. A binary code translator can help break up the bytes into more readable context.

For example, the binary figure 0100100001101001 becomes 01001000/01101001.

We need to find decimal values of these two strings separately.

Let’s start with 01001000. Remember, we won’t assign powers of 2 for the first three digits, because we don’t need those to find our decimal for text purposes.  We only need to know that 010 will indicate our first letter is uppercase.

The decimal output for the first string is 8. What’s the eighth letter in the alphabet? It’s H.

Now, let’s decode the second string. Our first three digits are 011, so we know it will be lowercase.  Just find the decimal output for the remaining five digits.

If you got 9, you got it right.  9 corresponds to i.  We know it’s a lowercase i.  Put them together, and we have “Hi”.

Hi!  Now you know how to convert binary code to text.  You can practice with the binary translator, now that you know the basics.

What is ASCII, and Why is it Important?

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It’s a text encoding system that was developed in the 1960s by the American Standards Association. ASCII was created as a way for computers to display, transmit and take text as input more efficiently.

The basic ASCII table uses only numbers and letters from the English alphabet, cutting out a lot of possible information that a computer would otherwise have to interpret or translate. Extended ASCII codes are used to represent letters from foreign alphabets and other symbols.

When you type the letters of the alphabet on your keyboard, your computer converts them into binary numbers that it can understand. While this conversion would be annoying for humans to make every single time, computers can process things at lightning-fast speeds and are built to use data in this fashion.

What is Binary, and Why is it Important?

The modern binary system is a base-2 numeral system, a method of mathematical expression capable of communicating everything a computer would need to know using only two symbols: 0 (zero) and 1 (one).

Binary has a long history spanning many centuries, however Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz gets the credit for inventing the basic modern binary system in 1689, using it as an expression of philosophy, religious beliefs, and mathematics. It enhances the existing numeral system through smart simplification.

These foundations would inspire engineers in the early 20th century that created the first computers. Researchers continue to innovate on the binary number system programmers use to make software, but the basis of bits and binary remains relevant to machines today.

Thanks to the simplicity of binary language, computers can almost instantly read and translate the 0s and 1s into data to store and trasmit, and into computer instructions to execute.

Understanding binary code is useful if you have an interest in computer science, digital electronics, engineering, or just want to learn about a fundamental aspect of modern computing. If you interface with hardware at all, the concepts of Boolean logic and binary are indispensable.

Questions and Answers about Binary to Text Conversion

Binary to ASCII table

Binary	Decimal	ASCII Character	Hex
0	0	NUL	0
1	1	SOH	1
10	2	STX	2
11	3	ETX	3
100	4	EOT	4
101	5	ENQ	5
110	6	ACK	6
111	7	BEL	7
1000	8	BS	8
1001	9	HT	9
1010	10	LF	0A
1011	11	VT	0B
1100	12	FF	0C
1101	13	CR	0D
1110	14	SO	0E
1111	15	SI	0F
10000	16	DLE	10
10001	17	DC1	11
10010	18	DC2	12
10011	19	DC3	13
10100	20	DC4	14
10101	21	NAK	15
10110	22	SYN	16
10111	23	ETB	17
11000	24	CAN	18
11001	25	EM	19
11010	26	SUB	1A
11011	27	ESC	1B
11100	28	FS	1C
11101	29	GS	1D
11110	30	RS	1E
11111	31	US	1F
100000	32	Space	20
100001	33	!	21
100010	34	“	22
100011	35	#	23
100100	36	$	24
100101	37	%	25
100110	38	&	26
100111	39	‘	27
101000	40	(	28
101001	41	)	29
101010	42	*	2A
101011	43	+	2B
101100	44	,	2C
101101	45	–	2D
101110	46	.	2E
101111	47	/	2F
110000	48	0	30
110001	49	1	31
110010	50	2	32
110011	51	3	33
110100	52	4	34
110101	53	5	35
110110	54	6	36
110111	55	7	37
111000	56	8	38
111001	57	9	39
111010	58	:	3A
111011	59	;	3B
111100	60	<	3C
111101	61	=	3D
111110	62	>	3E
111111	63	?	3F
1000000	64	@	40
1000001	65	A	41
1000010	66	B	42
1000011	67	C	43
1000100	68	D	44
1000101	69	E	45
1000110	70	F	46
1000111	71	G	47
1001000	72	H	48
1001001	73	I	49
1001010	74	J	4A
1001011	75	K	4B
1001100	76	L	4C
1001101	77	M	4D
1001110	78	N	4E
1001111	79	O	4F
1010000	80	P	50
1010001	81	Q	51
1010010	82	R	52
1010011	83	S	53
1010100	84	T	54
1010101	85	U	55
1010110	86	V	56
1010111	87	W	57
1011000	88	X	58
1011001	89	Y	59
1011010	90	Z	5A
1011011	91	[	5B
1011100	92	\	5C
1011101	93	]	5D
1011110	94	^	5E
1011111	95	_	5F
1100000	96	`	60
1100001	97	a	61
1100010	98	b	62
1100011	99	c	63
1100100	100	d	64
1100101	101	e	65
1100110	102	f	66
1100111	103	g	67
1101000	104	h	68
1101001	105	i	69
1101010	106	j	6A
1101011	107	k	6B
1101100	108	l	6C
1101101	109	m	6D
1101110	110	n	6E
1101111	111	o	6F
1110000	112	p	70
1110001	113	q	71
1110010	114	r	72
1110011	115	s	73
1110100	116	t	74
1110101	117	u	75
1110110	118	v	76
1110111	119	w	77
1111000	120	x	78
1111001	121	y	79
1111010	122	z	7A
1111011	123	{	7B
1111100	124	|	7C
1111101	125	}	7D
1111110	126	~	7E
1111111	127	DEL	7F