MMS Converter

Extract text from MMS files


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

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

Convert MMS to another file type

To convert your MMS file to another format, you need Autodesk Civil 3D or other Data software.

  • MMS to SMS
  • MMS to CMS
  • MMS to RCS
  • MMS to TEXT
  • MMS to MP3
  • MMS to WAV
  • MMS to AAC
  • MMS to FLAC
  • MMS to OGG
  • MMS to WMA
  • MMS to M4A
  • MMS to AIFF

Convert a file to MMS

To convert other file formats to the "Mobile Archive & CAD" file type, you need software like Autodesk Civil 3D or a similar tool.

  • MIDI to MMS
  • AAC to MMS
  • TTA to MMS
  • AU to MMS
  • WV to MMS
  • DTS to MMS
  • MID to MMS
  • FLAC to MMS
  • RA to MMS
  • MP3 to MMS
  • PCM to MMS
  • WAV to MMS

About MMS files

The .mms file extension represents two distinct, widely used formats that often confuse users.

  1. Multimedia Messaging Service File: Historically used by mobile devices and carrier backup tools to store multimedia messages (MMS). These files serve as containers for text, images (JPG, PNG), audio, and video clips sent between phones.

The Problem: These files are often proprietary archives or raw binary dumps (PDU) that modern operating systems cannot open natively. Users find old .mms files in backups but cannot view the cherished photos or conversation logs inside.

The Solution: For mobile backups, these should be converted or extracted to standard formats like JPG for images, MP4 for video, or PDF to archive the conversation text.

  1. Civil 3D Surface Data File: A critical companion file created by Autodesk Civil 3D. When a drawing's TIN surface geometry becomes too complex (typically exceeding standard node limits), the software offloads the data to an external .mms file to keep the parent DWG file size manageable.

The Problem: This is a "sidecar" file. If you email the DWG without the .mms, the recipient will see an empty surface or receive a "missing file" error. They cannot be opened standalone.

The Solution: These files generally should not be converted individually. They must be kept in the same folder as their parent DWG. To share them, zip both the DWG and .mms together.

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

Users also converted MMSX, JPG, MMES, VMG, MMS_, SMS, MMSW, PDU, MMSTHUMB, 3GP, MP4, TXT and PNG files.



The MMS 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 MMS converter.