Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ICM file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert ICM to another file type
To convert ICM profiles to another format, you need Adobe Photoshop or other System software.
Convert a file to ICM
To convert other file formats to the "Color Profile" file type, you need software like Adobe Photoshop or a similar tool.
About ICM files
Image Color Matching (.ICM) files are binary system profiles used to map and calibrate colors across different devices, such as monitors, scanners, and printers. They are structurally identical to ICC files. Graphics software like Adobe Photoshop and CorelDRAW rely on these profiles to ensure accurate color reproduction. Because .ICM is a specialized binary format, you cannot simply open it in a text editor or standard document viewer. Users often face challenges when trying to extract the raw color data, gamma values, or chromaticity coordinates stored inside. Standard online converters fail to process .ICM files because they lack specialized color management parsers. Additionally, a notable percentage of .ICM files are actually misnamed PDF documents resulting from server errors on specific government web portals. This causes frustration when users attempt to open a downloaded form and encounter an unknown file type. Our analyzer will identify if it is a genuine color profile, extract human-readable metadata to TXT, or safely expose embedded data. If our analysis detects it is actually a misnamed PDF or an Intercom PLIST file, we will route it to the correct format.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ICM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert ICM file to ICC, INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV or PROPERTIES, you can use Adobe Photoshop or similar software from the "Device Color Calibration Profile" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to ICM, try Adobe Photoshop or another comparable tool in the "Device Color Calibration Profile" category.
The ICM 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 ICM converter.