Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your EDF file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert EDF to another file type
To convert EDF data files to another format, you need EDFbrowser or other Data software.
Convert a file to EDF
To convert other file formats to the "Biomedical Signal Record" file type, you need software like EDFbrowser or a similar tool.
About EDF files
An .EDF file is primarily a European Data Format file used to store continuous biomedical signal data, such as EEG (electroencephalogram) and ECG (electrocardiogram) recordings. These files contain a standardized header with patient metadata and streams of continuous time-series data. Standard software like Microsoft Excel cannot open them natively because the data is encoded in a specialized binary format. Users often struggle with .EDF files because they are highly specific, frequently exceed 100MB due to high sampling rates, and require niche software like EDFbrowser or Neuroscan to view the physiological waveforms. Converting .EDF to standard tabular formats like CSV or TXT is necessary for researchers who want to process the data using Python, R, or MATLAB. However, exporting this data often results in massive text files that are cumbersome to parse. Standard online converters routinely fail to process .EDF because it is a complex, multi-channel binary format. Note that .EDF is also occasionally used as a project file for ACCA Edificius BIM software, an encrypted diary by eDiary, or game data for RF Online.
Convert.Guru analyzes your EDF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert EDF file to CSV, PDF, MAT, ASCII, DAT, TXT, DWG, DXF, DGN, RVT, RFA or SKP, you can use EDFbrowser or similar software from the "Biomedical signal data storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SLDASM, DGN, PRT, IAM, X_B, CATPRODUCT, SLDPRT, RVT, ASM, DWG, CATPART or DXF files to EDF, try EDFbrowser or another comparable tool in the "Biomedical signal data storage" category.
The EDF 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 EDF converter.