diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index c121e951f97a5ef6878593aef1bfa701fa9e084e..666fe1033b8ea90a8d4dd36da239ca9adbc27569 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ FileMediaCheck:
     - git fetch upstream
     - gawk -f ci_scripts/static_check.awk media.geo
 
-CheckRadLen:
+Bin2Txt_CheckRadLen:
   stage: checkGeometries
   image: rootproject/root
   tags:
@@ -137,8 +137,11 @@ CheckRadLen:
     - git diff upstream/master --name-only
     - touch LIST_GEO_FILES
     - FAIL=0
-    - for file in `git diff upstream/master 2>/dev/null --name-only | sed -ne '/\.geo\.root$/p'`; do if [ -f $file ]; then echo $file; sh ci_scripts/check_radlen.sh $file; if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then let FAIL++; fi; fi; done
+    - for file in `git diff upstream/master 2>/dev/null --name-only | sed -ne '/\.geo\.root$/p'`; do if [ -f $file ]; then echo $file; sh ci_scripts/bin2txt_checkradlen.sh $file; if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then let FAIL++; fi; fi; done
     - exit $FAIL
+  artifacts:
+    paths:
+        - "*.geo.txt.gz"
 
 InformCodeOwners:
   stage: finalise
@@ -168,6 +171,3 @@ Md5Sums:
   script:
     - find . -iname '*.geo.root' | xargs md5sum
 
-
-
-
diff --git a/ci_scripts/check_radlen.sh b/ci_scripts/bin2txt_checkradlen.sh
similarity index 66%
rename from ci_scripts/check_radlen.sh
rename to ci_scripts/bin2txt_checkradlen.sh
index cbb1989cda5729a9bd75359a36a4584fc83f95a1..4fdf79f3c5cc54d0b8a5d6c5f0a8b48af877c694 100755
--- a/ci_scripts/check_radlen.sh
+++ b/ci_scripts/bin2txt_checkradlen.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,20 @@
 #/bin/bash
-# check_radlen.sh - checks radiation length of materials in user supplied geometry
+# Copyright (C) 2022-2025 Facility for AntiProton and Ion Research in Europe, Darmstadt
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
+# First commited by Eoin Clerkin
+
+# bin2txt_checkradlen.sh
+# renamed from check_radlen.sh - checks radiation length of materials in user supplied geometry
 # Author: Eoin Clerkin (FAIR)  2022-01-31
 
+# 2025-03-20 Modified to also output the to-text version of binaries as artifact
+
 echo "Scanning the geometry" $1
 
-root -l -b -q 'ci_scripts/scan_geometry.C("'$1'")' 1>tmp
+ARTIFACT=`echo $1 | sed 's_^[a-zA-Z]*\/__' | sed 's_\.root$_\.txt_'`
+echo "ARTIFACT name is $ARTIFACT"
+
+root -l -b -q 'ci_scripts/scan_geometry.C("'$1'")' 2>&1 1>$ARTIFACT
 ROOT_EXIT=$?;
 
 if [ 0 -ne $ROOT_EXIT ]; then
@@ -12,7 +22,7 @@ if [ 0 -ne $ROOT_EXIT ]; then
   exit ${ROOT_EXIT};
 fi;
 
-grep '^M\(at\|ix\)' tmp | \
+grep '^M\(at\|ix\)' $ARTIFACT | \
 sort | \
 uniq -c | \
 sort -g -k 1 1>MATERIALS
@@ -22,7 +32,6 @@ FAIL=0;
 SKIP=0;
 OKAY=0;
 
-
 while IFS= read -r line;
 do
 
@@ -57,8 +66,8 @@ variables=`echo "$line" | sed -e 's/eff//g' | sed -e 's/index/jndex/g' | sed -e
 
 done < MATERIALS
 
-rm tmp MATERIALS
-
+rm MATERIALS
+gzip $ARTIFACT
 
 echo ${FAIL}" failures in " $COUNT " materials"