4DV Converter

Extract text from GE ultrasound archives (4DV)


Drop or upload your .4DV file
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How to extract text from your 4DV file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your 4DV file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert 4DV to another file type

To convert 4DV archives to another format, you need GE Healthcare 4D View or other Data software.

Convert a file to 4DV

To convert other file formats to the "Medical Imaging Archive" file type, you need software like GE Healthcare 4D View or a similar tool.


About 4DV files

The .4dv file extension is primarily associated with GE Healthcare 4D View, a specialized software used to analyze volumetric ultrasound data from GE Voluson machines. These files are not standard videos; they are proprietary ZIP-compressed archives containing raw 3D/4D voxel data, patient metadata, and sometimes internal VOL or .KRETZ files. Because they store the raw acoustic data rather than pixel-based frames, they cannot be opened by standard media players like VLC or Windows Media Player. Users typically encounter these files when trying to view fetal ultrasound scans at home. To convert them, you must use the official 4D View software (often provided on a CD/USB by the sonographer) to "export" the session as a standard AVI video or JPG image. A secondary, less common use of .4dv is for Volumetric Video meshes used in AR/VR by companies like 4Dviews, which requires completely different tools.

Convert.Guru analyzes your 4DV file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted JPG files.


FAQ

If you want to convert 4DV file to JPG, you can use GE Healthcare 4D View or similar software from the "4D Ultrasound Image Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to 4DV, try GE Healthcare 4D View or another comparable tool in the "4D Ultrasound Image Archive" category.



The 4DV Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our 4DV converter.