Extract text from Braille files (BRF)
To convert BRF files to another format, you need Mount & Blade or other Game software.
To convert other file formats to the "Game Resource Archive" file type, you need software like Mount & Blade or a similar tool.
The .BRF file extension serves multiple unrelated purposes, creating confusion for users. Most frequently, it is a binary resource archive used by TaleWorlds Entertainment for the Mount & Blade video game series. These files store 3D meshes, textures, collision data, and skeletal animations. Alternatively, it stands for Braille Ready Format, a widely used digital text standard for embossed Braille documents. In industrial environments, it functions as a proprietary HMI panel backup file for Siemens SIMATIC and ProLeiT systems.
Users typically need to convert .BRF files to extract 3D assets for game modding or to make Braille documents readable on standard screens. The primary disadvantage of game-related .BRF files is their locked, engine-specific structure. You cannot open them with standard 3D software like Blender without community-built extraction tools. Braille .BRF files rely on strict ASCII-to-Braille character mapping, meaning they look like nonsensical text when opened in a standard text editor. HMI backups are entirely closed binary blobs.
For game modding, the most practical conversion targets are OBJ or SMD formats, achieved using community extraction tools. For Braille documents, converting to TXT or PDF via specialized software like Duxbury Braille Translator is necessary.
Because this extension is shared by entirely different, highly proprietary formats, standard online converters fail to process it. A generic converter cannot parse a proprietary 3D mesh container or interpret an HMI backup. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects an underlying text structure or supported embedded formats, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your BRF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted LBF, DXB, TXT, ZIP, BBZ, BRL, DXP, PDF, BFR, CRF, EPUB, JPG and PNG files.
If you want to convert BRF file to PDF, EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP or SAV, you can use Mount & Blade or similar software from the "Game Assets & Braille Text" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to BRF, try Mount & Blade or another comparable tool in the "Game Assets & Braille Text" category.
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 BRF converter.