To use the text content of the file with Excel or some other spreadsheet software, convert the file to CSV ... which is why you might have one DXF file in binary format and another in ASCII.

If you are editing a binary file in a scripting language, xxd makes perfect sense. You can convert the file to text, process it, and then roll it back to binary using one program. On the other ...

Here, Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research explains how to get the raw source CIFAR-10 data, convert it from binary to text and save it as a text file that can be used to train a PyTorch neural ...