AIS Converter

Extract text from AIS files

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How to extract text from your AIS file

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

Convert AIS to another file type

To convert your AIS file to another format, you need MIT App Inventor or other Developer software.

Convert a file to AIS

To convert other file formats to the "Source Code Archive" file type, you need software like MIT App Inventor or a similar tool.

About AIS files

The .AIS extension is a "container" format used by several unrelated applications, creating significant confusion for users trying to open them. Most frequently (approx. 20%), an .AIS file is a source code archive for MIT App Inventor or Kodular, containing the blocks and assets for Android app development. These are essentially ZIP files in disguise; users often struggle because standard archivers do not recognize the extension by default. Another common variation is the ACDSee Image Sequence, a proprietary format used by ACDSee Photo Studio to store slideshows or collections of images. These files effectively lock your photos into a vendor-specific ecosystem, making them unreadable by standard viewers like Windows Photos or macOS Preview.

Less commonly, you may encounter an .AIS file as a binary game save for Alien: Isolation or a legacy database file associated with the Microsoft Jet Engine.

Best Conversion Targets:

For App Inventor Files: Convert to ZIP (by renaming) to extract assets, or import directly into the App Inventor web interface to compile an APK.
For ACDSee Sequences: Convert to standard JPG or PNG series to free your images from the proprietary container, or convert to MP4 if the sequence is intended as a video.
For Jet Databases: Convert to CSV or MDB (Microsoft Access) to make the data accessible to modern tools like Excel.

Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your AIS file.

Users also converted PDF, JSON, BKY, AIX and DEL files.

FAQ

If you want to convert AIS file to JPG, PDF, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TIF, WEBP, ICO, CUR, PSD or PSB, you can use MIT App Inventor or similar software from the "App Inventor Project Source" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert RAW, PNG, AI, NEF, PSB, DNG, SVG, GIF, EPS, JPG, ARW or PDF files to AIS, try MIT App Inventor or another comparable tool in the "App Inventor Project Source" category.

The AIS 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 AIS converter.