Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your LSA file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert LSA to another file type
To convert LSA files to another format, you need Google Camera or other Raster Image software.
Convert a file to LSA
To convert other file formats to the "Obfuscated Mobile Image" file type, you need software like Google Camera or a similar tool.
About LSA files
A .LSA file primarily stores portrait mode photos captured by Google Camera (GCam) mods on Android devices. It can also represent obfuscated images downloaded from Reddit, encrypted files in Samsung Secure Folder, hidden photos in Xiaomi Gallery, or a survey archive for LimeSurvey. The .LSA format is highly fragmented and often frustrating to work with. Because it acts as an obfuscated extension for standard images, default desktop image viewers and web browsers cannot open it natively. Furthermore, Samsung and Xiaomi variants are encrypted at the system level, making them entirely inaccessible outside the original device without proper decryption. For web use and reliable viewing, you must convert .LSA image files to .JPG or .PNG. If the file is a LimeSurvey archive, which relies on standard ZIP compression, convert it to .ZIP to safely extract the underlying XML and CSV survey data.
Convert.Guru analyzes your LSA file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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 Mode Image" 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 Mode Image" category.
The LSA 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 LSA converter.