Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your EWW file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert EWW to another file type
To convert EWW files to another format, you need ERDAS IMAGINE or other GIS software.
Convert a file to EWW
To convert other file formats to the "GIS World File" file type, you need software like ERDAS IMAGINE or a similar tool.
About EWW files
The .EWW file extension serves two distinctly different purposes. Primarily, it is an ECW Image World File used by GIS applications like ERDAS IMAGINE to provide spatial referencing for ECW (Enhanced Compression Wavelet) aerial and satellite images. Alternatively, it functions as an Embedded Workbench Workspace file created by IAR Systems for managing C/C++ embedded development projects. The major disadvantage of the .EWW format is user confusion. Because it shares an extension between a GIS georeferencing file and an XML-based compiler workspace, operating systems often fail to assign the correct default program. Furthermore, standard online converters routinely fail to process .EWW files because users mistakenly attempt to convert them as images or source code. In reality, a GIS .EWW file contains only plain text coordinate data (pixel size, rotation, and geographic coordinates), while an IAR .EWW file contains only XML project references. Converting an .EWW file to JPG or PDF is impossible because the file contains no visual data. Instead, if you need to migrate GIS data, you convert the mathematical text to other world file formats like TFW or JGW. For IAR workspaces, the XML can be extracted or converted to standard TXT. Because these are specialized, proprietary configuration files, they are difficult to open without the original software. However, you can use convert.guru as a pragmatic workaround. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. Our analysis will detect if it is a text-based coordinate file or an XML configuration, allowing you to inspect the raw data immediately.
Convert.Guru analyzes your EWW file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert EWW file to HTML, HTM, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP, ASPX, JSP, JSPX, PY, RB or PL, you can use ERDAS IMAGINE or similar software from the "GIS Georeferencing Data" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RSS, CSS, CGI, SITEMAP, PL, WEBMANIFEST, JSON, JS, XML, HTML, ICO or HTM files to EWW, try ERDAS IMAGINE or another comparable tool in the "GIS Georeferencing Data" category.
The EWW 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 EWW converter.