OFB Converter

Extract text from Oxygen Forensics backups (OFB)


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

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

Convert OFB to another file type

To convert OFB backups to another format, you need Oxygen Forensic Detective or other Backup software.

Convert a file to OFB

To convert other file formats to the "Forensic Extraction Archive" file type, you need software like Oxygen Forensic Detective or a similar tool.


About OFB files

An .OFB file is an Oxygen Forensics Extractor Backup used to store digital evidence extracted from mobile devices, cloud accounts, and memory cards. Investigators use this format to preserve call logs, messages, and application data. You can open and analyze these files using Oxygen Forensic Detective. Users often need to convert .OFB files because the format is highly proprietary and locked behind an expensive enterprise license. If you share an .OFB file with an attorney or an external auditor, they cannot open it without purchasing the software. These files can also exceed hundreds of gigabytes, making them difficult to transfer. The best target formats for this data are PDF for readable legal reports, CSV for spreadsheet analysis, or XML for importing into other eDiscovery platforms. Converting exports the internal database records into a widely accepted format, though raw system metadata may be excluded from standard reports. This file format is difficult to open or convert because it is a closed, proprietary container. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. Standard online converters will fail to process it. Our system can inspect the .OFB file to show text or internal content. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or extracting specific files may still be possible.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert OFB file to , you can use Oxygen Forensic Detective or similar software from the "Digital Forensics Data Backup" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to OFB, try Oxygen Forensic Detective or another comparable tool in the "Digital Forensics Data Backup" category.



The OFB 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 OFB converter.