ASCII Text to Hex Code Converter

Enter ASCII/Unicode text string and press the Convert button:

How to Convert Text to Hex

Convert text to hex ASCII code:

1. Get character
2. Get decimal code of character from ASCII table
3. Convert decimal to hex byte
4. Continue with next character

Example

Convert «Plant trees» text to hex ASCII code:

Use ASCII table to get ASCII code from character.

«P» => 80 = 5×16 1 +0×16 0 = 50₁₆

«l» => 108 = 6×16 1 +12×16 0 = 6C₁₆

«a» => 97 = 6×16 1 +1×16 0 = 61₁₆

For all the text characters you should get the hex bytes:

«50 6C 61 6E 74 20 74 72 65 65 73»

How to convert ASCII Text to Hex?

1. Get character
2. Get ASCII code of character from ASCII table
3. Convert decimal to hex byte
4. Continue with next character

How to use ASCII Text to Hex converter?

1. Paste text in input text box.
2. Select character encoding type.
3. Select output delimiter string.
4. Press the Convert button.

How to convert English to Hex code?

1. Get english letter
2. Get ASCII code of the english letter from ASCII table
3. Convert decimal to hex byte
4. Continue with next english letter

How to convert ‘A’ character to hex?

Use ASCII table:
‘A’ = 65₁₀ = 4×16+1 = 4×16 1 +1×16 0 = 41₁₆

How to convert ‘0’ character to hex?

Use ASCII table:
‘0’ = 48₁₀ = 3×16 = 3×16 1 +0×16 0 = 30₁₆

Hex to ASCII Text Converter

Enter hex bytes with any prefix / postfix / delimiter and press the Convert button
(e.g. 45 78 61 6d 70 6C 65 21):

ASCII text encoding uses fixed 1 byte for each character.

UTF-8 text encoding uses variable number of bytes for each character. This requires delimiter between each hex number.

How to Convert Hex to Text

Convert hex ASCII code to text:

1. Get hex byte
2. Convert hex byte to decimal
3. Get character of ASCII code from ASCII table
4. Continue with next byte

Example

Convert «50 6C 61 6E 74 20 74 72 65 65 73» hex ASCII code to text:

Use ASCII table to get character from ASCII code.

50₁₆ = 5×16 1 +0×16 0 = 80+0 = 80 => «P»

6C₁₆ = 6×16 1 +12×16 0 = 96+12 = 108 => «l»

61₁₆ = 6×16 1 +1×16 0 = 96+1 = 97 => «a»

For all the hex bytes you should get the text:

How to convert Hex to Text?

1. Get hex byte code
2. Convert hex byte to decimal
3. Get character of decimal ASCII code from ASCII table
4. Continue with next hex byte

How to use Hex to ASCII Text converter?

1. Paste hex byte codes in input text box.
2. Select character encoding type.
3. Press the Convert button.

How to convert Hex code to English?

1. Get hex byte code
2. Convert hex byte to decimal
3. Get english letter of decimal ASCII code from ASCII table
4. Continue with next hex byte

How to convert 41 hex to text?

Use ASCII table:
41 = 4×16^1+1×16^0 = 64+1 = 65 = ‘A’ character

How to convert 30 hex to text?

Use ASCII table:
30 = 3×16^1+0×16^0 = 48 = ‘0’ character

Ascii Text to Hexadecimal Converter

In order to use this ascii text to hexadecimal converter tool, type an ascii value like «awesome» to get «61 77 65 73 6f 6d 65» and then hit the Convert button. This is the way you can convert up to 128 ascii text to hexadecimal characters.

ASCII Text

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is one of the most common character encoding standards. Originally developed from telegraphic codes, ASCII is now widely used in electronic communication for conveying text.

As computers can only understand numbers, the ASCII code represents text (characters) with different numbers. This is how a computer ‘understands’ and shows text.

The original ASCII is based on 128 characters. These are the 26 letters of the English alphabet (both in lower and upper cases); numbers from 0 to 9; and various punctuation marks. In the ASCII code, each of these characters are assigned a decimal number from 0 to 127. For example, the ASCII representation of upper case A is 65 and the lower case a is 97.

Hexadecimal System (Hex System)

The hexadecimal system (shortly hex), uses the number 16 as its base (radix). As a base-16 numeral system, it uses 16 symbols. These are the 10 decimal digits (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) and the first six letters of the English alphabet (A, B, C, D, E, F). The letters are used because of the need to represent the values 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 each in one single symbol.

Hex is used in mathematics and information technologies as a more friendly way to represent binary numbers. Each hex digit represents four binary digits; therefore, hex is a language to write binary in an abbreviated form.

Four binary digits (also called nibbles) make up half a byte. This means one byte can carry binary values from 0000 0000 to 1111 1111. In hex, these can be represented in a friendlier fashion, ranging from 00 to FF.

In html programming, colors can be represented by a 6-digit hexadecimal number: FFFFFF represents white whereas 000000 represents black.

How to Convert ASCII Text to Hexadecimal

The most common way to convert ASCII text to hexadecimal numbers manually is to first look up the decimal number for the letter in the ASCII table. Then, convert this decimal value to its hexadecimal equivalent.

Also you might find a conversion table that directly converts ASCII to hexadecimal.

Example:

Ascii to Hexadecimal Conversion Table

Ascii	Hexadecimal	Binary
Space	20	00100000
!	21	00100001
«	22	00100010
#	23	00100011
$	24	00100100
%	25	00100101
&	26	00100110
‘	27	00100111
(	28	00101000
)	29	00101001
*	2A	00101010
+	2B	00101011
,	2C	00101100
—	2D	00101101
.	2E	00101110
/	2F	00101111
0	30	00110000
1	31	00110001
2	32	00110010
3	33	00110011
4	34	00110100
5	35	00110101
6	36	00110110
7	37	00110111
8	38	00111000
9	39	00111001
:	3A	00111010
;	3B	00111011
3E	00111110
?	3F	00111111
@	40	01000000
A	41	01000001
B	42	01000010
C	43	01000011
D	44	01000100
E	45	01000101
F	46	01000110
G	47	01000111
H	48	01001000
I	49	01001001
J	4A	01001010
K	4B	01001011
L	4C	01001100
M	4D	01001101
N	4E	01001110
O	4F	01001111
P	50	01010000
Q	51	01010001
R	52	01010010
S	53	01010011
T	54	01010100
U	55	01010101
V	56	01010110
W	57	01010111
X	58	01011000
Y	59	01011001
Z	5A	01011010
[	5B	01011011
\	5C	01011100
]	5D	01011101
^	5E	01011110
_	5F	01011111
`	60	01100000
a	61	01100001
b	62	01100010
c	63	01100011
d	64	01100100
e	65	01100101
f	66	01100110
g	67	01100111
h	68	01101000
i	69	01101001
j	6A	01101010
k	6B	01101011
l	6C	01101100
m	6D	01101101
n	6E	01101110
o	6F	01101111
p	70	01110000
q	71	01110001
r	72	01110010
s	73	01110011
t	74	01110100
u	75	01110101
v	76	01110110
w	77	01110111
x	78	01111000
y	79	01111001
z	7A	01111010
<	7B	01111011
|	7C	01111100
>	7D	01111101
7E	01111110
DEL	7F	01111111

Hex to Ascii (String) Converter

Recent Comments

l is 108, thus
(108)10 = (6C)16
108 ÷ 16 = 6.75 (Remainder 12, C in hex)
6 ÷ 16 = 0.375 (Remainder 6)

o is 111, thus
(111)10 = (6F)16
111 ÷ 16 = 6.9375 (Remainder 15, F in hex)
6 ÷ 16 = 0.375 (Remainder 6)

Therefore, hello = (68 65 6C 6C 6F)16

I find this a handy tool to have bookmarked. I don’t have to sit down and calculate or memorize values — which is fantastic!

7 Best Free HEX to ASCII Converter Software For Windows

Here is a list of best free HEX to ASCII converter software for Windows. Through these software, you can easily convert HEX or Hexadecimal codes to ASCII codes. Through most of these software, you can convert large HEX codes to ASCII codes. However, there are also some software which can only convert small HEX codes to ASCII format. After performing the conversion, you can easily copy the output code to clipboard.

In some of these converters, you can also find the feature to reconvert the output ASCII code to the original HEX code. Besides this, options to convert HEX code to Binary, Base 32, Base 64, Decimal, etc., codes are also present in some converters. Apart from code conversion features, some software also offer additional features like code editing, sorting, encryption, and more.

The process of conversion is pretty straightforward in most software as you just need to enter the HEX code in these software and start the conversion process to get the output ASCII code. If you face any difficulty, then you can check out the conversion steps which I have included in the description of these software. Go through the list to know more about these software.

My Favorite HEX to ASCII Converter Software For Windows:

NotePad++ is my favorite software because it can easily convert a large HEX code to ASCII code with ease. It offers dedicated code editing tools which you can use to edit input HEX codes. Plus, it allows you to save the output ASCII code in TXT, RTF, LEX, CS, etc., formats.

XL-Tools is another good software that you can try as it lets you perform both HEX to ASCII and ASCII to HEX conversions. Besides this, it offers various additional modules to perform tasks related to Time, Sorting, Lists, etc.

You can also check out lists of best free ASCII to HEX Converter, ASCII Art Generator, and Hex Editor software for Windows.

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free open source HEX to ASCII converter software for Windows. Apart from HEX code conversion, you can also use it to edit codes of different programming languages such as C++, C#, JAVA, DotNet, Python, etc. To edit codes, it offers various code editing tools which you can also use to edit HEX codes. Some of the editing tools provided by this software are Blank Operations, Line Operations, Row Editor, Column Editor, and more.

How to convert HEX to ASCII using Notepad++:

• Launch Notepad++ and click on the Open button to load a text file containing the HEX code on it. You can also copy and paste the HEX code directly in its editor.
• Next, use available code editing tools, if you want to edit the input HEX code before starting the conversion.
• After that, go to Plugins >Converter menu and select the Hex -> ASCII option to get the converted ASCII code on its interface.
• In the end, use the Save as option to save the output ASCII code in TXT, CS, BAS, LEX, etc., formats.

Additional Features:

• ASCII-> HEX: It lets you convert ASCII code to HEX code format.
• MD5 and SHA-256: It helps you generate the MD5 and SHA-256 based hex codes of a text data which you can use to check the integrity of the text.
• Encoding: Using it, you can change the default encoding format of a file to other popular encoding formats (UTF-8, ANSI, UTF-8 BOM, etc.).

Final Thoughts:

It is one of the best free HEX to ASCII converter software as it lets you edit HEX codes and also allows ASCII to HEX conversion.