E57 Converter

Extract text from E57 files


Drop or upload your .E57 file
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How to extract text from your E57 file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your E57 file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert E57 to another file type

To convert your E57 file to another format, you need CloudCompare or other 3D software.

Convert a file to E57

To convert other file formats to the "LIDAR Data Exchange" file type, you need software like CloudCompare or a similar tool.


About E57 files

The .E57 file format is the industry-standard ASTM E2807 container for storing 3D imaging data, specifically massive point clouds and panoramic images captured by terrestrial laser scanners (LIDAR). While it is a vendor-neutral format designed for interoperability, users frequently encounter friction because .E57 files are often gigabytes in size and incompatible with standard 3D modeling or game design software like Blender, Unity, or Unreal Engine. Additionally, opening these files requires specialized, often expensive, engineering software. To make the data usable for rendering, web viewing, or archiving, users typically need to convert .E57 to LAZ (for 10-20% file size compression), OBJ or PLY (for meshing and visual editing), or RCP (for integration into AutoCAD and Revit workflows).

Convert.Guru analyzes your E57 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted RCP, LAS, RCS, LGS, OBJ, PLY, LGSX, ZIP, LAZ, RSPROJ, FBX, DWG and RAR files.


FAQ

If you want to convert E57 file to RCP, LAS, OBJ, RCS, STL, POD, PLY, FBX, DAE, 3DS, MAX or BLEND, you can use CloudCompare or similar software from the "3D Point Cloud Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DWG, DAE, X3D, IGES, WRL, JT, SKP, 3DS, 3DM, OBJ, STEP or FBX files to E57, try CloudCompare or another comparable tool in the "3D Point Cloud Storage" category.



The E57 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 E57 converter.