Hex to Text Converter

Paste hex bytes to read them as text.

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The letter A converted to its binary code 01000001

Converting hex to text

Hexadecimal writes each byte as two digits (0–9 and A–F). The bytes 48 65 6C 6C 6F spell “Hello”. Paste hex with spaces, commas, 0x prefixes, or one continuous string such as 48656C6C6F.

The bytes are decoded as UTF-8, the encoding used by almost all modern text, so multi-byte characters like “é” (C3 A9) work. Hex dumps, color codes and network captures often contain data like this.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I convert hex to text?

Paste the hex above with “Hex to text” selected.

Can I paste 0x48 0x65 style bytes?

Yes. The 0x prefixes are ignored.

What if the result looks garbled?

The bytes may not be text, or may use another encoding such as UTF-16.