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Title: Binary-to-text encoding Authors: Venue: Wikipedia Year: unknown Canonical: wiki:binary-to-text-encoding URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-to-text_encoding Collector: wikipedia OA: true ABSTRACT A binary-to-text encoding is a data encoding scheme that represents binary data as plain text. Generally, the binary data consists of a sequence of arbitrary 8-bit byte values and the text is restricted to the printable character codes of commonly-used character encodings such as ASCII. In general, arbitrary binary data contains values that are not printable character codes, so software designed to only handle text fails to process such data. Encoding binary data as text allows information that is not inherently stored as text to be processed by software that otherwise cannot process arbitrary binary data. The software cannot interpret the information, but it can perform useful operations on the data such as transmit and store.