BCR Converter

Extract text from map itineraries (BCR)


Drop or upload your .BCR file
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How to extract text from your BCR file

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

Convert BCR to another file type

To convert BCR itineraries to another format, you need PTV Map&Guide or other Data software.

Convert a file to BCR

To convert other file formats to the "Application Specific Data" file type, you need software like PTV Map&Guide or a similar tool.


About BCR files

The .BCR file extension is shared by several unrelated, highly specialized software applications. Most commonly, it acts as a region data file for the Minecraft mod Better Than Wolves, or as a Binary Compressed Resource handled by tools like BCRedit. Other frequent uses include route planning itineraries for PTV Map&Guide, compiled accounting reports for BUSY Accounting Software or Tally ERP 9, and clash rule files for BIMcollab. These are strictly proprietary data formats. Files like compiled accounting reports or Mindray BS-200E biochemical reports are locked to their specific ecosystem to prevent tampering. They require specific, expensive, or niche software to open natively. The files are not standard documents, so typical document viewers will reject them entirely. You usually cannot convert a .BCR file into a PDF or DOCX directly because the data relies on the originating software's proprietary rendering engine. If it is a logistics itinerary, you need PTV Map&Guide to export it to CSV. Because this file format is difficult to open or convert, standard online converters fail. Often only the original software can properly read or export the data. Our analyzer knows that the Minecraft variant uses standard GZIP compression, while the BIMcollab variant is plain XML. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert BCR file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use PTV Map&Guide or similar software from the "Proprietary Application Data Storage" 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 BCR, try PTV Map&Guide or another comparable tool in the "Proprietary Application Data Storage" category.



The BCR 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 BCR converter.