Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your DICOMDIR file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert DICOMDIR to another file type
To convert DICOMDIR directory files to another format, you need DCMTK or other Database software.
Convert a file to DICOMDIR
To convert other file formats to the "Medical Imaging Directory" file type, you need software like DCMTK or a similar tool.
About DICOMDIR files
The .DICOMDIR file is an index used to organize medical images under the DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) standard. Hospitals and imaging centers include this file on patient CDs or DVDs containing MRI, CT, or X-ray scans. It acts as a table of contents. To open a .DICOMDIR file, you need specialized medical viewing software like MicroDicom, RadiAnt, or tools from DCMTK. The main problem users face is confusing the .DICOMDIR file with the actual medical image files. The .DICOMDIR is just a lightweight database containing patient metadata, study IDs, and file paths. It does not contain pixel data. If you try to open it with a standard image viewer, it will fail. Furthermore, the file relies on strict folder structures; if you move the .DICOMDIR file without the accompanying image folders, it becomes useless. You cannot directly convert a .DICOMDIR file into a JPG, PNG, or PDF because there is no image to convert. To get standard images, you must locate the actual DCM files in the subfolders and convert those instead. Because .DICOMDIR is a specialized binary index, standard online converters fail to process it. Just drag and drop your file into convert.guru to identify the format, view its internal metadata, and confirm it is a valid DICOM directory. If our analysis detects a supported underlying structure, we show the extracted text headers to help you understand your medical data.
Convert.Guru analyzes your DICOMDIR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert DICOMDIR file to JPG, DICOM, DCM, MP4, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI or CFG, you can use DCMTK or similar software from the "Medical Imaging Directory Index" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to DICOMDIR, try DCMTK or another comparable tool in the "Medical Imaging Directory Index" category.
The DICOMDIR 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 DICOMDIR converter.