Based on my own experience as well as other feedback I have seen from other issues I am proposing that the script be modified to accept human readable text files in an ascii-like binary/hex format. All of our data collection methods that we use in IBM result in data that is either humanly readable binary/hex data. Looking at the script it doesn't seem like that would be hard to implement. I think as long as you make your script robust enough to strip out newlines and flag invalid characters it should be easy to do.