Octal to Text
Decode octal character codes into text — base-8 escapes become characters.
How to use Octal to Text
- Paste the octal codes separated by spaces — e.g. 110 145 154 154 157. Strip any backslash prefixes first.
- Read the decoded text instantly: Hello.
- Check the flagged token if an error appears — an 8 or 9 in a code marks a transcription mistake.
- Click “Copy result” to use the recovered string.
What is Octal to Text?
An octal to text converter decodes space-separated base-8 character codes into the string they spell: 110 151 → Hi, 101 → A. Each code is parsed as an octal number and rendered as its Unicode character.
This is the reader for octal's remaining habitats: C string escapes (\110\151 in source code), the byte columns of Unix's od dump output, legacy documentation, and puzzle messages coded in base 8 to be one step trickier than decimal.
About the Octal to Text
Paste octal codes separated by spaces — with any backslashes stripped — and the decoded text appears instantly.
Use it to read what a string of \-escapes in old C source actually says, to translate od -b output back into text when hunting a file corruption, to decode octal-coded puzzle or CTF strings, and to verify answers when teaching base-8 encoding. Any token containing an 8 or 9 — impossible digits in octal — is flagged by name rather than misread.
Decoding is instant and local to your browser. Text to Octal encodes the other way; Hex to Text and ASCII to Text decode the same characters from their other notations.