A small, very fast and powerful text extractor that will be of particular interest to programmers. It can Extract text from any kind of file and includes the ability to find plain ASCII text, Unicode (double byte ANSI) text and Resource strings, providing useful information for each item in the optional "advanced" view mode. Its comprehensive filtering helps Prevent unwanted text being listed. The gathered list can be searched and saved to a separate file as either a plain text file or in informative tabular format.
Useful tip: Place a shortcut to Bintext in your Windows/SendTo folder so that you can automatically send files to BinText by right-clicking on their names and choosing Send To -> BinText from the drop-down menu. You can set this up by right-clicking on bintext.exe, selecting Copy then open up your Windows/SendTo folder, right click the mouse and select Paste Shortcut.