MAG Converter

Convert MAG files online for free


Drop or upload your .MAG file

How to convert your MAG file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your MAG file.
  2. You'll see a preview.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.

Convert MAG to another file type

The converter easily converts your MAG file to various formats - free and online. No Word or extra software needed.

Convert a file to MAG

The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Raster Image formats to MAG with high quality output.


About MAG files

The .MAG file extension represents two distinct legacy formats that often frustrate modern users due to lack of native support. Most commonly (71%), it is a Scanned Document Image created by Wang Imaging for Windows (later acquired by Kodak and then Tungsten Automation, formerly Kofax). These files are effectively archaic wrappers for raster data, often multi-page, which modern operating systems like Windows 11 cannot preview or open without specialized, often expensive, enterprise software. Another significant variation is the Magical Image format, a retro raster graphic associated with Magical Paint Soft on Japanese PC-98 computers. Because both formats are proprietary and obsolete, they are incompatible with standard viewers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Photos, or Adobe Photoshop.

To access the content locked in these files, conversion is essential. For Wang/Kofax documents, the best practice is converting to PDF or PDF/A to ensure the document structure is preserved for archiving. For Magical Paint retro graphics, converting to PNG is ideal to maintain the crisp, lossless quality of the original pixel art. convert.guru simplifies this process by automatically detecting the specific .MAG variant - whether it is a scanned business record or a retro gaming asset - and converting it to a usable modern format immediately.

Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your MAG file.

Users also converted MSG, M3U, PDF, TXT, ZIP, LDB, MDB, JET, DB and FLUX files.


FAQ

If you want to convert MAG file to DB, FLUX, TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK, OLD, NEW, PART, DOWNLOAD or CRDOWNLOAD, you can use Tungsten Automation or similar software from the "Legacy Scanned Document Storage" 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 MAG, try Tungsten Automation or another comparable tool in the "Legacy Scanned Document Storage" category.



The MAG 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 MAG converter.