Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your LCB file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert LCB to another file type
To convert LCB batch files to another format, you need Shimadzu LabSolutions or other Data software.
Convert a file to LCB
To convert other file formats to the "Batch Analysis File" file type, you need software like Shimadzu LabSolutions or a similar tool.
About LCB files
The .LCB file format serves multiple highly specialized roles. Its most common application is as a Chromatography batch analysis file generated by Shimadzu LabSolutions. In this context, it stores batch processing parameters and results for liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LCMS) workflows. Under the hood, these scientific files use a Microsoft Compound File structure. Alternatively, an .LCB file can be a Living Cookbook Backup file created by Radium Technologies. These backups are standard ZIP archives containing recipe databases, meal plans, and user settings. Other less common uses include sign layouts for MAX Bepop, SAP LiveCache databases, and Lexar Image Rescue metadata. The main disadvantage of .LCB files is their severe lack of interoperability. For LabSolutions files, the format is deeply proprietary and requires an expensive, specialized software license to open or export the scientific data. This locks users into the Shimadzu ecosystem and makes sharing results with colleagues outside the lab incredibly difficult. If you want to convert the chromatography data, you typically need to export it directly from within LabSolutions to a universally readable format like CSV, XLSX, or PDF. Living Cookbook backups face a different problem: the software is largely defunct. Standard online converters generally fail to process .LCB files because they lack the specific parsing engines required for proprietary scientific data or specialized label creator formats. Because these are closed, proprietary formats, only the original software can properly read or export the structured data. We can inspect the file's header to determine whether it is a LabSolutions batch, a ZIP-compressed Living Cookbook backup, or a Lexar metadata file. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your LCB file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert LCB file to BAK, BACKUP, OLD, TMP, TEMP, ARC, ZIP, TAR, GZ, 7Z, RAR or ISO, you can use Shimadzu LabSolutions or similar software from the "Chromatography Batch Analysis" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SNAPSHOT, OLD, IMG, RESTORE, ISO, COPY, VMDK, TMP, VHD, BAK, ARCHIVE or BACKUP files to LCB, try Shimadzu LabSolutions or another comparable tool in the "Chromatography Batch Analysis" category.
The LCB 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 LCB converter.