OCE Converter

Extract text from OCE files

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Drop or upload your .OCE file

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How to extract text from your OCE file

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

Convert OCE to another file type

To convert your OCE file to another format, you need Oracle Hyperion or other Data software.

Convert a file to OCE

To convert other file formats to the "BI Query & Reporting" file type, you need software like Oracle Hyperion or a similar tool.

About OCE files

The .OCE file extension is a container for data, yet it suffers from an identity crisis across three distinct legacy and modern ecosystems. Primarily, these are Brio Query files (now part of the Oracle Hyperion suite), used to store database connection strings and query logic for Business Intelligence reporting. Because Brio software reached its end-of-life years ago, these files are often "orphaned," leaving users with valuable business logic locked in a proprietary binary format that modern BI tools cannot natively import.

Secondly, modern users frequently encounter .OCE files as exports from the Oracle Cloud Cost Estimator. While useful for importing back into Oracle's ecosystem, these raw data files are often unreadable to stakeholders who simply need a budget report.

Finally, the extension serves as an Open Catalog Extension file for establishing connections in older Oracle BI dashboards.

Practical Conversion Targets:

For Data Recovery (Brio/Legacy): Convert to CSV or XLSX (Excel). This strips away the defunct formatting and retrieves the raw dataset or query parameters for migration to modern platforms like Tableau or Power BI.
For Reporting (Cloud Estimates): Convert to PDF to freeze the cost breakdown for management review, or XLSX to manipulate the budget figures.
For Archiving: Use PDF/A to document the query logic or cost snapshot for long-term compliance.

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

Users also converted SHAREDVIEW and SDE files.

FAQ

If you want to convert OCE file to DWG, DXF, DGN, RVT, RFA, SKP, 3DM, STEP, IGES, SAT, X_T or X_B, you can use Oracle Hyperion or similar software from the "Business Intelligence Querying" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert SLDASM, DGN, PRT, IAM, X_B, CATPRODUCT, SLDPRT, RVT, ASM, DWG, CATPART or DXF files to OCE, try Oracle Hyperion or another comparable tool in the "Business Intelligence Querying" category.

The OCE 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 OCE converter.