Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your JGW file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert JGW to another file type
To convert your JGW file to another format, you need ESRI_ArcGIS or other GIS software.
Convert a file to JGW
To convert other file formats to the "World File" file type, you need software like ESRI_ArcGIS or a similar tool.
About JGW files
A .jgw file is a small, plain text "world file" used by GIS software to georeference a standard JPG image. It contains six lines of coordinates that tell mapping applications like ESRI ArcGIS or QGIS exactly where to place the image on a map. While simple, the .jgw format presents a significant data management risk: it is a separate "sidecar" file. If the .jgw is separated from its corresponding image, renamed, or lost, the geospatial data is gone, leaving you with just a plain picture. Furthermore, it does not specify the coordinate system (projection), requiring users to know this metadata externally. To resolve these fragility issues and ensure data integrity, professionals typically convert the JPG + .jgw pair into a single GeoTIFF (.TIF) file, which embeds the georeferencing data directly into the image header. For web mapping, converting to KML or KMZ allows the overlay to be viewed in Google Earth.
Convert.Guru analyzes your JGW file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert JGW file to JPG, SHP, KML, KMZ, GPX, GEOJSON, TOPOJSON, TIF, TIFF, ECW, SID or IMG, you can use ESRI_ArcGIS or similar software from the "GIS Image Georeferencing" 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 JGW, try ESRI_ArcGIS or another comparable tool in the "GIS Image Georeferencing" category.
The JGW 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 JGW converter.