Image as a string of binary numbers

Is there a way to convert a .jpg or .gif into a string of binary numbers?

I want to have a string of binary numbers that could be copied from a word document then read back in MATLab as a picture.

I would also need to know what function could such a string as an image.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Converting to text:

dec2bin(TheImage,8)

Converting back:

reshape(uint8(bin2dec(TheStringArray)), size(TheImage))

[Hunter Thurmond]

i need an array size 1xn or nx1 so it can go back and forth from a word document. im not sure its possible though.

[Image Analyst]

Wouldn't he need bin2dec() because he says that they should be "copied from a word document then read back in MATLab"? So presumable it looks like 00000101 and he wants an image with gray level 5 out of that.

[Walter Roberson]

? I did give the "to text" and "back" code ?

[Walter Roberson]

Hunter: use reshape() to change it into a vector. Just be sure to reshape() back the right way!