ORC Converter

Extract text from ORC files


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

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

Convert ORC to another file type

To convert your ORC file to another format, you need Apache Hive or other Data software.

Convert a file to ORC

To convert other file formats to the "Hadoop Storage File" file type, you need software like Apache Hive or a similar tool.


About ORC files

The .ORC file extension primarily denotes the Optimized Row Columnar format, a self-describing, type-aware columnar file format designed for Apache Hadoop workloads. While it provides high compression and read performance for Big Data tools like Apache Hive and Apache Spark, it presents a significant hurdle for general users: it is a binary format that cannot be opened in standard text editors or spreadsheet applications like Microsoft Excel. To view or analyze this data without setting up complex Java-based infrastructure, users must convert .ORC files to human-readable formats. For spreadsheet analysis, CSV or XLSX are the ideal targets. For web applications or debugging, converting to JSON is recommended.

A small minority of .ORC files are legacy MIDI sequences created by older audio software like Cakewalk or Voyetra Digital Orchestrator. These proprietary project files are often incompatible with modern media players. Converting these legacy audio files to standard MID (MIDI) allows them to be opened in modern DAWs or played on standard devices.

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

Users also converted PDF, DOCX, JPG, JPEG, PNG, PUML, CSV, CRDOWNLOAD, TXT, 000000_0 and JSON files.


FAQ

If you want to convert ORC file to PDF, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use Apache Hive or similar software from the "Big Data Columnar Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to ORC, try Apache Hive or another comparable tool in the "Big Data Columnar Storage" category.



The ORC 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 ORC converter.