BHF Converter

Extract text from dictation audio files (BHF)


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

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

Convert BHF to another file type

To convert BHF dictations to another format, you need BigHand or other Audio software.

Convert a file to BHF

To convert other file formats to the "Dictation Recording" file type, you need software like BigHand or a similar tool.


About BHF files

The .bhf extension indicates a BigHand Dictation File, a proprietary audio container used by legal and medical professionals within the BigHand workflow ecosystem. These files use the Microsoft Compound (OLE2) structure to encapsulate voice recordings (typically PCM audio) alongside vital metadata like author identity, transcription status, and case numbers.

While efficient for enterprise workflow, .bhf files are a headache for archiving and external sharing. They cannot be opened by standard media players like VLC or Windows Media Player, and users often find them unplayable after migrating away from the BigHand platform. For accessibility, the best practice is converting the internal audio stream to MP3 for web/email or WAV for lossless archiving.

Less frequently, a .bhf file may be a Message History File from the discontinued Quiet Internet Pager (QIP). These binary logs store old chat sessions and require conversion to TXT or HTML to be readable today.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert BHF file to , you can use BigHand or similar software from the "Digital Voice Dictation" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to BHF, try BigHand or another comparable tool in the "Digital Voice Dictation" category.



The BHF 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 BHF converter.