CFM Converter

Extract text from CFM files

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Drop or upload your .CFM file

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How to extract text from your CFM file

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

Convert CFM to another file type

To convert your CFM file to another format, you need Adobe ColdFusion or other Web software.

Convert a file to CFM

To convert other file formats to the "Server Script" file type, you need software like Adobe ColdFusion or a similar tool.

About CFM files

A .CFM file is primarily a ColdFusion Markup Language file, a web scripting format developed by Adobe (originally Allaire) used to create dynamic webpages. These files contain code executed by a ColdFusion server (like Adobe ColdFusion or Lucee) to generate HTML, images, or PDFs dynamically.

The Common Problem: Users frequently encounter .CFM files not as developers, but as end-users downloading invoices, receipts, or reports. This happens when a web server generates a document (often a PDF) but fails to assign the correct extension, leaving the browser to save it as download.cfm. In this state, the file is unusable unless renamed or converted. Furthermore, legitimate CFM scripts are strictly server-side; opening them locally only reveals raw source code, not the visual webpage.

The Solution:

For Web/Viewing: Convert legitimate scripts to HTML or JPG to see the rendered output.
For Documents: If you expected a document, converting (or renaming) the file to PDF is the standard fix.
For Development: Convert to TXT or open in Visual Studio Code to edit the markup.

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

Users also converted CMF, PDF, CFN, CHM, HTML, CTM, ECM, CSM, JPG, CNF, JPEG, CRDOWNLOAD and SPV files.

FAQ

If you want to convert CFM file to HTML, HTM, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP, ASPX, JSP, JSPX, PY, RB or PL, you can use Adobe ColdFusion or similar software from the "Server-Side Web Scripting" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert RSS, CSS, CGI, SITEMAP, PL, WEBMANIFEST, JSON, JS, XML, HTML, ICO or HTM files to CFM, try Adobe ColdFusion or another comparable tool in the "Server-Side Web Scripting" category.

The CFM 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 CFM converter.