About binarytranslator.ai

binarytranslator.ai is a free set of converters and guides for binary, hex, decimal and text. It is an independent website based in the United States, built for students, developers and teachers who need to read, write or check a string of 0s and 1s.

What you will find here

The site started with the binary translator, which turns binary code into readable text, and its reverse, text to binary. It now has tools for binary, hex, octal and other bases, text and encoding, plus calculators, data size converters and reference tables. Each tool has its own page with a worked example, and the all tools page lists them in one place.

Next to the tools there are guides on the blog, from how to read binary to Python's struct module, a reference section with the ASCII table, the hex table and a lookup that shows any character or number in every base, and free binary worksheets with answer keys for classroom use.

Who works on the site

Every guide is written by one of our writers and checked by a reviewer before it goes live, and every tool is tested before release.

Sam SiewertSam SiewertProfessor, computer scienceMehran Mozaffari KermaniMehran Mozaffari KermaniProfessor, computer engineeringKhushboo GuptaKhushboo GuptaPhD student, computer scienceJack GoldsmithJack GoldsmithCS instructorJacob SetoJacob SetoCS studentUma VictorUma VictorTechnical writerZachary PainterZachary PainterTechnical writerBrein MatturroBrein MatturroContent writer

Tools are built by Ian Schwarzkopf and Michael Schwobe, and tested by Sophiko Gorgadze, Tomeshia Brock and Sharmina Rahman. Each person has a profile with their background, a link to their LinkedIn and the pages they worked on.

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How the tools are built

Every tool runs in your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded, so the converters work on private data and keep working if your connection drops after the page loads.

Number conversions use whole-number arithmetic with no size limit instead of ordinary floating point. That is why a 64-bit value such as FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF converts to exactly 18446744073709551615 here, where many calculators round it. Text conversions support UTF-8 and around 40 older character encodings, so accented letters, Cyrillic, Chinese and emoji decode correctly.

Each converter can show its working: the place-value sum, the division table or the byte-by-byte breakdown. That way you can check an answer by hand or learn the method behind it.

How the guides are written and checked

Each guide starts from one reader with one problem, such as a developer who just hit UnicodeDecodeError or a student converting 77 to binary for homework. Every code sample is run before the guide is published, and the output printed under it is the real output, not typed by hand.

A reviewer with a background in the subject reads each guide before it goes live and is named at the top next to the writer. Tool pages show the tester who checked the tool, the reviewer who signed off the explanation and the date the page last changed. Where a page relies on an outside standard, such as ASCII, UTF-8 or two's complement, it links to that standard. The testing steps are on how we check our tools.

Corrections

If a result or a sentence looks wrong, email [email protected] with the page and what you expected. Every report is reproduced by hand. When a page is corrected, its updated date changes, and when a tool was wrong, that input joins the tool's test set so the same bug cannot come back.

What the site does not do

  • It does not ask you to sign up or log in.
  • It does not upload or store what you type into a tool, so there is nothing to sell or share.
  • It does not put ads inside a tool. If ads are added later to pay for hosting, they will be labeled Advertisement and kept away from the tool buttons.

Get in touch

Spotted a mistake or want a tool added? Email [email protected] or see the contact page for what to include.

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