AS Converter

Extract text from AS files

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How to extract text from your AS file

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

Convert AS to another file type

To convert your AS file to another format, you need Adobe_Animate or other Developer software.

Convert a file to AS

To convert other file formats to the "Scripting Language" file type, you need software like Adobe_Animate or a similar tool.

About AS files

The .AS file extension primarily denotes ActionScript source code, the scripting language driving interactivity in Adobe Animate (formerly Flash) and Adobe AIR applications.

Files ending in .AS are plain text documents containing object-oriented code based on the ECMAScript standard. While historically critical for web games and rich internet applications, the depreciation of the Flash Player has rendered raw .AS files difficult to utilize in modern workflows.

Common Challenges:

Obsolescence: Since browsers no longer support Flash, the code inside .AS files cannot be executed natively on the web.
Dependencies: Proper compilation requires legacy environments like Adobe Flash Builder or specific SDKs.
Ambiguity: The extension is also used by AngelScript (a game scripting library) and AppleSingle (a binary encoding format for macOS files), creating confusion if the source is unknown.

Conversion Solutions:

For Web Migration: Developers should reference the code to port logic to JS (JavaScript) or TS (TypeScript).
For Archiving/Review: Convert .AS to PDF or HTML to preserve syntax highlighting and readability without needing an IDE.
For Quick Access: Since it is text-based, simply renaming or converting to TXT allows immediate access in any text editor like Notepad++.

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

Users also converted FLA, JPEG, SWF, MP4, XFL, EDGE, LMV, BS and RM files.

FAQ

If you want to convert AS file to BS, RM, JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB or GO, you can use Adobe_Animate or similar software from the "ActionScript Source Code" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to AS, try Adobe_Animate or another comparable tool in the "ActionScript Source Code" category.

The AS 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 AS converter.