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 CFM markup files to another format, you need Adobe ColdFusion or other Web software.
Convert a file to CFM
To convert other file formats to the "ColdFusion Markup Script" file type, you need software like Adobe ColdFusion or a similar tool.
About CFM files
A .CFM file is fundamentally a ColdFusion Markup Language script. Developers use these files to build dynamic web applications on platforms like Adobe ColdFusion. Normally, web servers process .CFM scripts and output standard HTML code. However, a major issue arises when users download files from a ColdFusion-powered server. Because of misconfigured HTTP headers, the server often sends a generated PDF document or a ZIP archive but mistakenly leaves the .CFM extension on the downloaded file name. This makes the file incredibly difficult to open. Your operating system will not recognize it, and standard document viewers will fail. A text editor will show useless binary gibberish if the file is actually a misnamed document. You need to properly identify the file to access its contents. Standard online converters fail to process .CFM files because they assume it is always a text-based script and do not inspect the actual binary data. Our platform analyzes the internal structure.
Convert.Guru analyzes your CFM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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.