Hi,

I'm looking for a batch file or en-script which will convert all hex in a .txt into ascii. I've found one batch script online but it skips large portions of hex. Does anyone have one on hand?

Commercial or open source, all appreciated. Encase / ftk / winhex isnt much use, as it reads the hex as asci (as it should). Unless I'm missing a useful function in winhex (trial) to convert??  

Maybe I am missing the point, but just opening the file in a text editor, Like Notepad, UltraEdit or many others will display a binary file as text. Of course many hex values are outside of the ASCII range, so there is no sensible way to display them. So you'll either get a lot of garbage characters, or a lot values skipped, depending on the tool and font in use.

I think your whole idea of *conversion* to ASCII doesn't make sense. ASCII is a just mapping of values in a file to symbols to characters.

The question would make sense, if it was a conversion from UTF-16 to ASCII. Or a conversion from EBCDIC to ASCII. Or maybe you mean something like converting ASCII HTML hex encoded character references to plain unencoded ASCII?
0x48 0x45 0x4c 0x4c 0x4f = HELLO  

Hi Passmark,

"ASCII HTML hex encoded character references to plain unencoded ASCII?" - Highly likely. The data was generated by a web-server.

"So you'll either get a lot of garbage characters, or a lot values skipped, depending on the tool and font in use." - Plenty of garbage characters.

I can decode the hex in web based converters, but I need something that can batch recursive on multiple .txt files.  

Can you give an example of what the source file looks like (or a link to an example file)  

Research1, do I understand that you have a text file that contains the following:


And you want to convert that into some one byte character set, e.g., ASCII. That's an interesting question.

Passmark, thanks for participating. And, umm, aren't you a famous rockstar?
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Try this freeware,
www.gdargaud.net/Hack/...Ascii.html
(Disclaimer, I have never used it, but the screen shot looks like it might do what we are guessing you want done).

...aren't you a famous rockstar?

Only in my dreams.....  

- Passmark

Can you give an example of what the source file looks like (or a link to an example file)

I second this! In the meantime, here's a quick and dirty python 2.x solution assuming your file content is something like this:

48656C6C6F20576F726C64


I had a quick look at doing it in EnScript, but to be honest I find EnScript to be an exercise in frustration with this sort of simple file content processing.