Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your FMW file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert FMW to another file type
To convert FMW firmware to another format, you need HP Firmware Update Utility or other System software.
Convert a file to FMW
To convert other file formats to the "Firmware Update Package" file type, you need software like HP Firmware Update Utility or a similar tool.
About FMW files
A .fmw file usually represents an HP Printer Firmware Update package, though it is also widely used by Safe Software as an FME Data Integration Workspace file. When functioning as firmware, these files contain compiled machine code designed to update the internal operating system of hardware devices, including HP printers, Cisco networking gear, and ALi Corporation set-top boxes. As an FME workspace, the file stores spatial data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) rules. Both formats present strict limitations. Firmware files are proprietary, closed binaries that cannot be edited or converted into human-readable documents. FME Workspace files lock you into a costly proprietary ecosystem and require specific software to execute the data pipelines. Standard online converters fail completely when processing these files because there is no universal visual target for raw firmware or ETL rules. However, many HP .fmw files secretly use standard GZIP compression internally. We will analyze the binary signature. If it is a compressed firmware update, we can often unpack the GZIP layer. If it is an FME workspace, we can extract the internal text and XML configuration strings, allowing you to bypass the original software restrictions and read the underlying data.
Convert.Guru analyzes your FMW file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert FMW file to SHP, KML, KMZ, GPX, GEOJSON, TOPOJSON, TIF, TIFF, ECW, SID, IMG or DEM, you can use HP Firmware Update Utility or similar software from the "Firmware Update & Data Integration" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert LAZ, KMZ, DTM, CSV, DEM, PRJ, LAS, GPX, DSM, SHP, DBF or KML files to FMW, try HP Firmware Update Utility or another comparable tool in the "Firmware Update & Data Integration" category.
The FMW 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 FMW converter.