DFM Converter

Extract text from Delphi forms and AI models (DFM)


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

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

Convert DFM to another file type

To convert DFM forms and models to another format, you need Embarcadero Delphi or other Developer software.

Convert a file to DFM

To convert other file formats to the "Form Definition File" file type, you need software like Embarcadero Delphi or a similar tool.


About DFM files

The .DFM file extension is primarily a Delphi Form Module used by Embarcadero Delphi to store user interface layouts. These files hold the properties, dimensions, and event bindings for windows, buttons, and other Visual Component Library (VCL) controls. Additionally, the .DFM extension is heavily utilized by DeepFaceLab to store compiled AI face swap machine learning models. Users face significant challenges with .DFM files because the format's structure is entirely context-dependent. Delphi forms can be saved in either a proprietary binary format or standard UTF-8 plain text. If you possess a binary .DFM file, it requires the original Delphi IDE or the convert.exe command-line utility to become human-readable. Furthermore, an isolated Delphi form is functionally useless without its paired PAS (Pascal) source code file. Conversely, DeepFaceLab model files are massive, complex binary archives often exceeding 100MB that will instantly crash standard text editors. They require dedicated machine learning environments to execute or convert. Standard online converters fail completely when processing .DFM files because they lack the highly specialized parsing engines required for Embarcadero VCL objects or TensorFlow/PyTorch tensor data. You cannot simply convert a developer's user interface layout to a PDF document or a machine learning model to a JPG image. The most logical target format for a Delphi form is TXT, while AI models occasionally convert to .ONNX, but both processes risk losing execution capability. Because this file format is difficult to open or convert, often only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a plain-text Delphi form, viewing the raw UI code is entirely possible.

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

Users also converted JPG, PNG, JPEG, WEBP, PDF, TXT, BIN, EXE, DCR, DPR and RSM files.


FAQ

If you want to convert DFM file to JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB, GO, RS or SWIFT, you can use Embarcadero Delphi or similar software from the "UI Layout Form Module" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to DFM, try Embarcadero Delphi or another comparable tool in the "UI Layout Form Module" category.



The DFM 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 DFM converter.