Export RGB values

Hi,
I am interested in analyzing scientific images for their color content. I have Photoshop, illustrator and Acrobat Professional. Can any of these export the RGB value of each pixel in an image as a csv, prn or table delimited text file? I don't need the XY values for each pixel. Am wondering if it is easier to extra this type of information from the pre-vector-based formats of photoshop?
If Adobe products can't do this, is there any cheap/free software that will extract RGB information/
Thanks
Ian

You could save the image as an uncompressed 24-bit BMP, and then use a hex editor to get the RGB values. Not sure the best way to navigate line endings. I would probably line my image with two columns of a color that doesn't appear in the image and then replace that with line breaks in a text editor. But I like to work hard.
See wiki here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format

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