Secure and virus free unlike JPEG or GIF or any other binary format. Lossless format and still up to 15 times smaller than full color bitmaps and tiff. Searchable Picture Text files for ANY picture attribute using Windows Search. Email safe with any email system and all system administrators. Self-sufficent, no other tools required on Windows. Format independent, you can archive your pictures as text for decades and convert them to any picture format later. For example, you can use RestoreAsJpeg to restore as Jpeg Image any bmp, png or tif image you converted to text.