Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your HEA file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert HEA to another file type
To convert HEA Header files to another format, you need WFDB Software Package or other Data software.
Convert a file to HEA
To convert other file formats to the "Biomedical Signal Header" file type, you need software like WFDB Software Package or a similar tool.
About HEA files
The .hea file is a physiological signal header file used by the PhysioNet WFDB (WaveForm DataBase) system. It acts as a crucial metadata companion to raw biomedical signal files (typically DAT), storing technical patient parameters, sampling frequencies, and signal calibration details for electrocardiograms (ECG) and electromyography (EMG) readings. Researchers primarily use the WFDB software package or BioSig to interpret these files. The main disadvantage of the .hea format is its strict dependency on specialized clinical research environments. It is completely proprietary to the WFDB ecosystem, impossible to open in standard web browsers, and effectively useless without its paired signal data file. This creates a severe bottleneck for data sharing and general analysis. To unlock this clinical data for broader use, convert the .hea file to CSV or JSON for immediate compatibility with Excel, Python, or R. For long-term archiving of the metadata itself, convert to PDF or TXT. Drag and drop your file here to analyze and convert it securely right in your browser.
Convert.Guru analyzes your HEA file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted XWS, MAT, DAT, HEAD and CSAHEADER files.
FAQ
If you want to convert HEA file to , you can use WFDB Software Package or similar software from the "Physiological Signal Metadata Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to HEA, try WFDB Software Package or another comparable tool in the "Physiological Signal Metadata Storage" category.
The HEA 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 HEA converter.