Extract text from LSA files
To convert your LSA file to another format, you need Google Camera or other Raster Image software.
To convert other file formats to the "Mobile Photography Container" file type, you need software like Google Camera or a similar tool.
The .lsa file extension is primarily generated by Android devices using the Google Camera (GCam) mod, specifically for 'Portrait Mode' or 'Lens Blur' shots. These files serve as containers or obfuscated images that store the main photo alongside depth-map metadata, allowing for post-capture focus adjustment. While beneficial on a mobile device, this format is a major problem for desktop users; standard viewers like Microsoft Photos or Adobe Photoshop often cannot open them, and they may appear as unreadable system files after transferring data to a PC.
A secondary but common use is in LimeSurvey, where .lsa functions as a ZIP-compressed survey archive containing structure (XML) and response data. Users typically need to convert these to XLS or PDF to analyze results outside the survey platform.
Note for Xiaomi Users: If you found this file in a secretAlbum folder on a Xiaomi device, it is likely an encrypted image. Unlike GCam files, these are strictly locked to the device's account and often cannot be converted without restoring them to the original phone.
Convert.Guru analyzes your LSA file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted LSAV, SA, JPG, ISA, LAS, MP4, BIN, SAV, LCA, IMG, LSV, PDF and JPEG files.
If you want to convert LSA file to JPG, MP4, PPL, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP or OGV, you can use Google Camera or similar software from the "Android Portrait Photo" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MTS, MOV, RMVB, DIVX, RM, H264, TS, WMV, VOB, MP4, XVID or AVI files to LSA, try Google Camera or another comparable tool in the "Android Portrait Photo" 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 LSA converter.