CREV Converter

Extract text from Captivate SWF files (CREV)


Drop or upload your .CREV file
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How to extract text from your CREV file

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

Convert CREV to another file type

To convert CREV SWF files to another format, you need Adobe Captivate or other Web software.

Convert a file to CREV

To convert other file formats to the "Interactive eLearning Object" file type, you need software like Adobe Captivate or a similar tool.


About CREV files

The .crev file format is primarily an Adobe Captivate Commentable SWF File used for collaborative reviewing of eLearning modules. When authors export a project for review in older versions of Adobe Captivate, it creates this package containing a Shockwave Flash (SWF) movie and embedded XML comment tracking data. The main disadvantage of the .crev format today is its total reliance on obsolete Flash technology. Because Flash was deprecated in 2020 due to severe security vulnerabilities, modern web browsers and operating systems natively block these files. Furthermore, this is a proprietary container format, meaning it requires outdated software installations or specific Adobe environments to run properly. Ideally, you should convert these files to modern web standards like .HTML5 for interactive playback or MP4 for standard video viewing. Be aware that converting to MP4 will completely strip out all interactive elements, quizzes, and clickable comments. Standard online converters usually fail to process .crev files because it is a closed, proprietary archive wrapped around deprecated technology. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects the supported underlying SWF or XML embedded format, viewing or extracting the raw review data may still be possible.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert CREV file to , you can use Adobe Captivate or similar software from the "eLearning Shared Review File" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to CREV, try Adobe Captivate or another comparable tool in the "eLearning Shared Review File" category.



The CREV 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 CREV converter.