ALB Converter

Extract text from ALB files


Drop or upload your .ALB file

How to extract text from your ALB file

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

Convert ALB to another file type

To convert your ALB file to another format, you need ACDSee Photo Studio or other Page Layout software.

  • ALB to NLB
  • ALB to JS
  • ALB to TS
  • ALB to PY
  • ALB to JAVA
  • ALB to CPP
  • ALB to C
  • ALB to CS
  • ALB to PHP
  • ALB to RB
  • ALB to GO
  • ALB to RS

Convert a file to ALB

To convert other file formats to the "Digital Album Project" file type, you need software like ACDSee Photo Studio or a similar tool.

  • SH to ALB
  • PY to ALB
  • KT to ALB
  • PS1 to ALB
  • SWIFT to ALB
  • LUA to ALB
  • PL to ALB
  • JAVA to ALB
  • SCALA to ALB
  • JS to ALB
  • VBS to ALB
  • TS to ALB

About ALB files

The .ALB extension serves as a container for distinct, often incompatible formats, creating significant confusion for users. Primarily, it is a Photo Album Project file associated with legacy software like MyPhotoAlbum, Album Express, and ACDSee Photo Studio. In this context, the file functions as a proprietary playlist or layout definition; it typically stores metadata, captions, and file paths pointing to external images rather than containing the high-resolution photos themselves. A major problem arises when users attempt to open an archived .ALB file only to find it "empty" because the source JPG or PNG images were moved or deleted. Less frequently, an .ALB file may be a compiled Lua script used by the MMORPG ArcheAge, or a library file for Alpha Anywhere (formerly Alpha Five).

For photo albums, the best conversion target is PDF, which freezes the layout and captions into a universally viewable document for archiving. If the file actually contains embedded thumbnails (common in older versions), converting to JPG extraction is necessary to recover visual data. For ArcheAge gamers, these files are not meant for standard conversion but require specific decompilers to view the source logic.

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

Users also converted ATF, ALBUM, ALBX, PNG, ZIP, ARD, ATT, ANC and NLB files.



The ALB 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 ALB converter.