FCE Converter

Extract text from Face data files (FCE)


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

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

Convert FCE to another file type

To convert FCE Data files to another format, you need FaceGen Modeller or other 3D software.

Convert a file to FCE

To convert other file formats to the "Face Animation & Survey Data" file type, you need software like FaceGen Modeller or a similar tool.


About FCE files

The .fce file extension is a fragmented format that primarily acts as either a 3D game character face data file or a topographic survey data file. In the 3D gaming and rendering industry, it stores complex facial meshes and animation sequences. These files are typically generated by FaceGen Modeller and are also utilized internally in games like Koei Sangokushi 11 and Need for Speed. In the civil engineering and GIS sectors, however, .fce serves as a specialized data container for topographic surface models and coordinate geometry, heavily utilized by Geostru Mondo software, TopoLT, or Trimble Business Center. The core disadvantage of the .fce format is its extreme ambiguity and proprietary vendor lock-in. Because the exact same extension is adopted by entirely unrelated industries - 3D modeling versus geospatial mapping - standard operating systems constantly fail to open it correctly. Topographic .fce files demand expensive, specialized GIS software licenses just to preview the terrain data. Similarly, 3D .fce face meshes are often heavily compressed, encrypted, or locked to legacy game engines, making them impossible to open in modern web browsers or standard modeling tools like Blender. To bypass these severe limitations, conversion is the most practical workaround. If you possess a 3D facial data file, convert the .fce to OBJ or FBX for standard editing, or to GLTF for lightweight web deployment. For topographic and survey files, converting to DXF ensures broad CAD system compatibility, while converting to CSV allows for direct raw coordinate extraction. Drag and drop your file here to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing heavy desktop software.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert FCE file to MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP, OGV, ASF or RM, you can use FaceGen Modeller or similar software from the "3D Face or GIS Data" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MTS, MOV, RMVB, DIVX, RM, H264, TS, WMV, VOB, MP4, XVID or AVI files to FCE, try FaceGen Modeller or another comparable tool in the "3D Face or GIS Data" category.



The FCE 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 FCE converter.