Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your CR3 file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert CR3 to another file type
To convert your CR3 file to another format, you need Canon Digital Photo Professional or other Camera Raw software.
Convert a file to CR3
To convert other file formats to the "ISO Base Media File" file type, you need software like Canon Digital Photo Professional or a similar tool.
About CR3 files
The .CR3 file format is the modern raw image standard for Canon digital cameras, including the EOS R and M series. Unlike its predecessor (B.CR2), the .CR3 format utilizes the ISO Base Media File Format (ISOBMFF) - the same container structure found in MP4 videos - to store unprocessed sensor data and complex metadata. While this allows for features like 'C-RAW' (compact raw) which significantly reduces file size, these files are strictly proprietary. You cannot open them in standard web browsers, most default image viewers, or older versions of photo editors like Adobe Photoshop. Sharing raw photos directly is impractical due to their massive size and lack of compatibility. To use these images on websites, social media, or in general documents, you must convert them. For web display and quick sharing, convert .CR3 to JPG or WebP. For high-fidelity editing or printing without proprietary lock-in, convert to TIFF. For long-term archiving, the DNG format is the industry standard.
Convert.Guru analyzes your CR3 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert CR3 file to JPG, PNG, DNG, CR2, RAW, TIFF or MP4, you can use Canon Digital Photo Professional or similar software from the "Digital Photography Raw Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to CR3, try Canon Digital Photo Professional or another comparable tool in the "Digital Photography Raw Storage" category.
The CR3 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 CR3 converter.