ALR Converter

Extract text from alarm logs and game archives (ALR)

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Drop or upload your .ALR file

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How to extract text from your ALR file

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

Convert ALR to another file type

To convert ALR logs and archives to another format, you need ASEM HMI or other Data software.

Convert a file to ALR

To convert other file formats to the "Industrial Log File" file type, you need software like ASEM HMI or a similar tool.

About ALR files

The .ALR extension is a fragmented format primarily associated with industrial automation and legacy gaming. In the industrial sector, it serves as an Alarm Log Record generated by HMI (Human-Machine Interface) software from companies like ASEM or digital regulators from Mecc Alte. These files often contain critical operational data, timestamps, and error codes formatted in UTF-16 (LE) text. However, they are practically inaccessible to standard office tools because they lack standard file headers and are locked into proprietary workflows. Users frequently struggle to open them in Microsoft Excel or text editors due to encoding mismatches or binary wrapping.

A secondary but significant use case involves game resource archives for titles like Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy) or Resident Evil 4. In this context, the file is a binary container holding audio, textures, or scripts, completely unreadable by standard text viewers.

Conversion Recommendations:

For Data Analysis: If your file is an industrial log, convert it to CSV or XLSX. This allows you to filter error codes and timestamps in spreadsheet software.
For Documentation: Convert logs to PDF to create immutable records for compliance auditing.
For Text Viewing: Convert to standard TXT (UTF-8) to ensure the logs open in any basic editor like Notepad++ without encoding glitches.
For Games: "Conversion" usually means extraction; specialized unpacking tools are required to retrieve assets.

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

Users also converted OUTPUT, USAGE and ERROR files.

FAQ

If you want to convert ALR file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use ASEM HMI or similar software from the "Industrial Alarm Log" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to ALR, try ASEM HMI or another comparable tool in the "Industrial Alarm Log" category.

The ALR 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 ALR converter.