Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BWT file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert BWT to another file type
To convert BWT Templates and images to another format, you need Brady Workstation or other Page Layout software.
Convert a file to BWT
To convert other file formats to the "Label Template" file type, you need software like Brady Workstation or a similar tool.
About BWT files
The .BWT file extension typically serves two entirely different purposes depending on its origin. Most commonly, it is a Brady Workstation label design template used in industrial settings for printing barcodes, safety signs, and wire markers. Alternatively, it functions as a disc image table of contents for the legacy VSO Software BlindWrite application, storing track data for backed-up CDs and DVDs alongside a BWI (image) and BWS (subchannel) file. Both formats are highly proprietary and present significant accessibility challenges. Brady templates require a paid subscription or specific Brady hardware to access, making them incredibly difficult to share with clients or colleagues who do not own the proprietary software. Users often need to convert these files to PDF, JPG, or PNG for easy viewing, approval, and printing across generic devices. Conversely, BlindWrite files are largely obsolete, and users typically want to convert them to standard ISO or CUE formats for modern disc emulation. Standard online converters universally fail to process .BWT files because they lack the proprietary rendering engines needed to interpret the closed binary or XML-based code. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. convert.guru can inspect the raw file contents, extract plain text such as label data or disc metadata, and determine if an embedded, convertible format exists within the proprietary shell.
Convert.Guru analyzes your BWT file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert BWT file to ISO, IMG, DMG, VHD, VMDK, VDI, HDD, QCOW, QCOW2, RAW, VBOX or OVA, you can use Brady Workstation or similar software from the "Label Design Template" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert VFD, DMG, OVA, IMA, VBOX, ADF, PVS, VHD, OVF, ISO, DSK or IMG files to BWT, try Brady Workstation or another comparable tool in the "Label Design Template" category.
The BWT 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 BWT converter.