Full Name	American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
Compression ID	IG_COMPRESSION_ASCII = 23
ImageGear Component	Core
Bit Depth	Gray level: 1, 8, 16 bpp; RGB 24, 48 bpp
File Formats	PBM, PGM, PNM, PPM
ImageGear Platforms Support	WIN32, WIN64, Unix, Unix64, .NET, .NET64, MAC

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Acronym for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII is a code for representing English characters as numbers, with each letter assigned a number from 0 to 127. For example, the ASCII code for uppercase M is 77. Most computers use ASCII codes to represent text, which makes it possible to transfer data from one computer to another.

Text files stored in ASCII format are sometimes called ASCII files. Text editors and word processors are usually capable of storing data in ASCII format, although ASCII format is not always the default storage format. Most data files, particularly if they contain numeric data, are not stored in ASCII format. Executable programs are never stored in ASCII format.