DFM Converter

Extract text from DFM files


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 your DFM file to another format, you need Embarcadero Delphi or other Developer software.

  • DFM to JS
  • DFM to TS
  • DFM to PY
  • DFM to JAVA
  • DFM to CPP
  • DFM to C
  • DFM to CS
  • DFM to PHP
  • DFM to RB
  • DFM to GO
  • DFM to RS
  • DFM to SWIFT

Convert a file to DFM

To convert other file formats to the "UI Layout Source" file type, you need software like Embarcadero Delphi or a similar tool.

  • SH to DFM
  • PY to DFM
  • KT to DFM
  • PS1 to DFM
  • SWIFT to DFM
  • LUA to DFM
  • PL to DFM
  • JAVA to DFM
  • SCALA to DFM
  • JS to DFM
  • VBS to DFM
  • TS to DFM

About DFM files

The .DFM extension primarily identifies Delphi Form Modules, which define the visual layout and properties of windows in applications built with Embarcadero Delphi. These files store attributes for buttons, labels, and data connections. A significant problem for developers is that older DFM files are often stored in a proprietary binary format. This binary encoding makes them unreadable in standard text editors like Notepad++ and incompatible with version control systems like Git, rendering git diff useless for tracking UI changes. To solve this, developers convert binary DFMs to Text DFM or standard TXT format for readability and archiving.

In the realm of artificial intelligence, .DFM also refers to face models used by DeepFaceLab. These files contain trained neural network weights for deepfake generation. They are typically large, complex, and locked to the specific training environment. For cross-platform deployment or inference outside the training tools, users often seek to convert these models to open standards like ONNX or TensorFlow SavedModel formats. Additionally, DASYLab users encounter DFM files as data acquisition worksheets, which are often converted to CSV or Excel (XLSX) for analysis to bypass the need for the original National Instruments software.

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.



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.