LOG Converter

Extract text from LOG files


Drop or upload your .LOG file
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How to extract text from your LOG file

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

Convert LOG to another file type

To convert your LOG file to another format, you need Notepad++ or other Text software.

Convert a file to LOG

To convert other file formats to the "Event Record" file type, you need software like Notepad++ or a similar tool.


About LOG files

A .LOG file is a plain text record used by operating systems, software installers, and web servers to document runtime events, errors, and processes. While universal, these files present significant challenges: they often grow to gigabytes in size, making them crash standard editors like Microsoft Notepad; they may use inconsistent text encodings (like UTF-16 vs. UTF-8) that display as gibberish; and they lack the column structure needed for easy analysis. To overcome these limitations, users should convert .LOG files to PDF for secure archiving and sharing that preserves formatting. For data analysis, converting structured logs to CSV or XLSX allows for sorting and filtering in Microsoft Excel. For compatibility with web browsers, converting to HTML is ideal.

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

Users also converted LDB, TXT, MANIFEST-000001, CURRENT, CXI, OLD, LOGS, TMP, NMEA, ADIF, LOGX, DMP and BIN files.


FAQ

If you want to convert LOG file to PDF, CSV, TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, PAGES, TEX, LATEX, MD or MARKDOWN, you can use Notepad++ or similar software from the "System & Event Logging" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, DOCX, JPG, TXT, NOTE or RTF files to LOG, try Notepad++ or another comparable tool in the "System & Event Logging" category.



The LOG 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 LOG converter.