Extract text from LINK files
To convert your LINK file to another format, you need DICOM Viewer or other System software.
To convert other file formats to the "Reference Pointer" file type, you need software like DICOM Viewer or a similar tool.
A .link file is most frequently a DICOM Medical Image Link, a reference file found on patient data CD/DVDs (often accompanying a DICOMDIR index). Unlike the actual DCM medical images which contain high-resolution X-rays, CT scans, or MRIs, the .link file acts as a lightweight pointer, telling proprietary software like a DICOMDIR Viewer where to locate the heavy image data on the disc. This creates a major difficulty: users often copy just the .link file thinking it is the image, only to find it cannot be opened by standard image editors like Adobe Photoshop or GIMP. Ideally, these files are converted to TXT to reveal the file path of the missing data, or - if the source files are present - processed into standard PDF reports or JPG images for sharing with non-specialists.
Alternatively, on Windows systems, a file extension named .link may be a variation of the standard Windows Shell Link (LNK). These are binary shortcuts used by Microsoft Windows to point to executables or documents. When moved to non-Windows operating systems (like macOS or Linux), these shortcuts break and become unusable binary blobs. Converting these to Text allows users to recover the original target path and arguments.
Convert.Guru analyzes your LINK file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted ZIP, HTML, EXE, DOCX, MP4, JPG, PDF, SDOCX, SERVICE, TARGET, MP3 and VIDEO files.
If you want to convert LINK file to PDF, MP3, VIDEO, MP4, TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK, OLD, NEW or PART, you can use DICOM Viewer or similar software from the "Medical Image Reference" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DEVICE, CACHE, SOCK, SYMLINK, PID, MOUNT, FIFO, LOG, PIPE, TMP, JUNCTION or TEMP files to LINK, try DICOM Viewer or another comparable tool in the "Medical Image Reference" category.
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 LINK converter.