Extract text from OutWit Catch databases (OWC)
To convert OWC databases to another format, you need OutWit Catch or other Database software.
To convert other file formats to the "Web Scraper Database" file type, you need software like OutWit Catch or a similar tool.
The .OWC file is an OutWit Catch Database created by OutWit Technologies. It is specifically designed to store web scraped data, extraction rules, macro configurations, and cached web content generated by the OutWit Catch application.
The primary disadvantage of the .OWC format is its highly proprietary nature. It acts as a closed data container that requires the specific desktop installation of OutWit Catch to open or manage natively. These files can easily grow to several gigabytes depending on the volume of scraped data, and standard database viewers or spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel cannot read them directly.
To make the scraped information actually useful, users need to convert .OWC files to open formats like CSV, XLSX, or JSON. This allows the extracted data to be analyzed, shared, or imported into external business intelligence tools and custom databases.
Because .OWC is a closed, proprietary format, standard online converters usually fail to process it. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the structured data. Our platform inspects the internal file signature to find readable text or standard embedded database structures (like SQLite). If our analysis detects a supported underlying format, partial data extraction or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your OWC file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted OWM, OWG and ITG files.
If you want to convert OWC file to DB, SQLITE, SQLITE3, MDB, ACCDB, DBF, ODB, FDB, GDB, MYD, FRM or SQL, you can use OutWit Catch or similar software from the "Web Scraping Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert NDF, SQLITE3, BAK, RDB, SQL, DB4, MDF, MDB, LDF, DB, DB3 or SQLITE files to OWC, try OutWit Catch or another comparable tool in the "Web Scraping Data Storage" category.
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 OWC converter.