Aduino SD card read bytecode

Hello all

I have been really impressed with the arduino so far
For one of my projects I will be generating a Jpeg image and saving it onto an sd card
Is the Arduino able to read the RAW bytecode of the file as hex and then squirt it down a serial stream as ascii hex e.g. ED E5 65 54

I thought that as an arduino can decode a text file then therefore it can read the raw bytes
I am a newbie though so I may not be seeing the proper picture

I am using the arduino uno and the ladyada SD shield
Thanks for your time :slight_smile:

M0ZJO