diff --git a/test/barcodes/QR_CODE-binary-80.png b/test/barcodes/QR_CODE-binary-80.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5f378ae
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diff --git a/test/barcodes/QR_CODE-binary-8081fe01008200.png b/test/barcodes/QR_CODE-binary-8081fe01008200.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c5f9bd1
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diff --git a/test/test_all.py b/test/test_all.py
index f508efd..77a4129 100644
--- a/test/test_all.py
+++ b/test/test_all.py
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
     ( 'QR CODE (¡filenáme törture test! 😉).png', 'QR_CODE', 'This should be QR_CODE' ),
     ( 'QR_CODE-png-but-wrong-extension.bmp', 'QR_CODE', 'This should be QR_CODE' ),
     ( 'QR_CODE-fun-with-whitespace.png', 'QR_CODE', '\n\r\t\r\r\r\n ' ),
+    ( 'QR_CODE-binary-8081fe01008200.png', 'QR_CODE', b'\x80\x81\xfe\x01\x00\x82\x00' ),
+    ( 'QR_CODE-binary-80.png', 'QR_CODE', b'\x80' ),
     ( 'QR_CODE-screen_scraping_torture_test.png', 'QR_CODE',
       '\n\\n¡Atención ☹! UTF-8 characters,\n\r embedded newlines,\r &&am&p;& trailing whitespace\t \r ' ),
 ]
@@ -44,8 +46,11 @@ def _check_decoding(filename, expected_format, expected_raw, extra={}):
         if dec is not None:
             raise AssertionError('Expected failure, but got result in {} format'.format(expected_format, dec.format))
     else:
-        if dec.raw != expected_raw:
+        if isinstance(expected_raw, bytes) and dec.raw_bytes != expected_raw:
+            raise AssertionError('Expected {!r} but got {!r}'.format(expected_raw, dec.raw_bytes))
+        elif dec.raw != expected_raw:
             raise AssertionError('Expected {!r} but got {!r}'.format(expected_raw, dec.raw))
+
         if dec.format != expected_format:
             raise AssertionError('Expected {!r} but got {!r}'.format(expected_format, dec.format))
 
diff --git a/zxing/__init__.py b/zxing/__init__.py
index 9a95e12..e6256fa 100644
--- a/zxing/__init__.py
+++ b/zxing/__init__.py
@@ -140,11 +140,19 @@ def parse(cls, zxing_output):
                 if m:
                     points.append((float(m.group(1)), float(m.group(2))))
 
-        raw = raw[:-1].decode()
-        parsed = parsed[:-1].decode()
-        return cls(uri, format, type, raw, parsed, points)
+        raw_bytes = raw[:-1]
+        try:
+            raw = raw[:-1].decode()
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            raw = None
+        try:
+            parsed = parsed[:-1].decode()
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            parsed = None
+        return cls(uri, format, type, raw_bytes, raw, parsed, points)
 
-    def __init__(self, uri, format, type, raw, parsed, points):
+    def __init__(self, uri, format, type, raw_bytes, raw, parsed, points):
+        self.raw_bytes = raw_bytes
         self.raw = raw
         self.parsed = parsed
         self.uri = uri
@@ -153,5 +161,5 @@ def __init__(self, uri, format, type, raw, parsed, points):
         self.points = points
 
     def __repr__(self):
-        return '{}(raw={!r}, parsed={!r}, uri={!r}, format={!r}, type={!r}, points={!r})'.format(
-            self.__class__.__name__, self.raw, self.parsed, self.uri, self.format, self.type, self.points)
+        return '{}(raw={!r}, parsed={!r}, uri={!r}, format={!r}, type={!r}, points={!r}, raw_bytes={!r})'.format(
+            self.__class__.__name__, self.raw, self.parsed, self.uri, self.format, self.type, self.points, self.raw_bytes)