ID2 Converter

Extract text from ID2 files

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How to extract text from your ID2 file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ID2 file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert ID2 to another file type

To convert your ID2 file to another format, you need IDA Pro or other Database software.

Convert a file to ID2

To convert other file formats to the "Binary Analysis File" file type, you need software like IDA Pro or a similar tool.

About ID2 files

The .ID2 extension primarily identifies a compressed database component generated by IDA Pro, the premier interactive disassembler used by reverse engineers. These files store specific parts of the binary analysis, such as B-tree structures or metadata, derived from analyzing executable files like EXE or DLL. The major disadvantage of this format is its strict proprietary nature; it is designed exclusively for internal use by the IDA kernel. You cannot open an .ID2 file in a standard text editor, SQL viewer, or generic hex editor and expect readable data. Furthermore, these files are often version-locked, meaning an .ID2 created in a newer version of IDA may not open in older versions, and they require a costly commercial license to access natively.

A secondary, legacy use case for this extension is for custom emoticons from Microsoft Windows Live Messenger. In this context, the file is essentially a renamed image container.

Conversion Best Practices:

For Analysis: Users typically need to convert the binary data inside the IDA database into human-readable formats. The best targets are ASM (Assembly listings) or C (Pseudocode) for code review.
For Documentation: Flowcharts and call graphs stored in the analysis are best converted to PNG, SVG, or PDF for inclusion in technical reports.
For Emoticons: If the file is a legacy image, converting to PNG or GIF restores accessibility for web and chat use.

Convert.Guru analyzes your ID2 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

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FAQ

If you want to convert ID2 file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use IDA Pro or similar software from the "Reverse Engineering Database" 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 ID2, try IDA Pro or another comparable tool in the "Reverse Engineering Database" category.

The ID2 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 ID2 converter.