Extract text from CHR files
To convert your CHR file to another format, you need Doki Doki Literature Club! or other Game software.
To convert other file formats to the "Game Data File" file type, you need software like Doki Doki Literature Club! or a similar tool.
The .CHR extension is a polysemous container used across gaming, 3D modeling, and legacy programming, creating significant ambiguity for users trying to access the content. The most common modern usage is found in Doki Doki Literature Club!, where character files (e.g., monika.chr) are actually disguised Easter eggs containing PNG images, JPEG photos, Ogg Vorbis audio, or Base64 encoded text. Users frequently struggle to open these because the operating system does not recognize the .CHR masking, requiring file header analysis or manual renaming to view the hidden content.
In professional workflows, .CHR refers to character definition files in 3ds Max or CryEngine. These are proprietary binary formats that lock character rigging and animation data into specific software versions, making them inaccessible to standard 3D viewers like Blender without conversion. Additionally, legacy Borland compilers use this format for stroke fonts, which are incompatible with modern TrueType (TTF) or OpenType (OTF) systems.
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Convert.Guru analyzes your CHR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted PDF, PNG, JPG, CBR, TXT, ZIP, SKIN, CR2, RPT, CHM, JPEG, XLS and MAX files.
If you want to convert CHR file to OBJ, FBX, DAE, 3DS, MAX, BLEND, MA, MB, C4D, STL, PLY or WRL, you can use Doki Doki Literature Club! or similar software from the "Game Character Data" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DWG, DAE, X3D, IGES, WRL, JT, SKP, 3DS, 3DM, OBJ, STEP or FBX files to CHR, try Doki Doki Literature Club! or another comparable tool in the "Game Character Data" 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 CHR converter.