FAI Converter

Extract text from Reports, indices, and firmware (FAI)


Drop or upload your .FAI file

How to extract text from your FAI file

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

Convert FAI to another file type

To convert FAI Data files to another format, you need TCC Flash Image Tool or other Data software.

Convert a file to FAI

To convert other file formats to the "Transaction Log & Firmware" file type, you need software like TCC Flash Image Tool or a similar tool.


About FAI files

The .FAI extension primarily functions as either a Banking Transaction Failure Report in the Indian banking system or a Firmware Image for Telechips processors. Indian banks use these files to log bulk transfer rejections. Meanwhile, hardware developers use the format to store boot logos or system firmware flashed via the TCC Flash Image Tool.

The main disadvantage of .FAI files is their obscure, proprietary nature. Banking .FAI files contain dense, unformatted text strings that are difficult for clients or auditors to read without internal banking software. Telechips .FAI files are binary blobs that standard image viewers cannot display, making it impossible to preview a boot logo without specialized developer tools.

To bypass these limitations, you need to convert the file. Just drag and drop your file here to convert it. For banking reports, convert to CSV or XLSX for easy spreadsheet analysis, or .PDF/A for secure, long-term archiving. For Telechips firmware images, convert the embedded graphic layers to PNG or WebP to view them directly in standard web browsers.

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

Users also converted FIA, PLO, JFM and MCB files.


FAQ

If you want to convert FAI file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use TCC Flash Image Tool or similar software from the "Failure Report & Firmware Storage" 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 FAI, try TCC Flash Image Tool or another comparable tool in the "Failure Report & Firmware Storage" category.



The FAI 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 FAI converter.