Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PAK file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert PAK to another file type
To convert PAK Packages to another format, you need Unreal Engine or other Compressed software.
Convert a file to PAK
To convert other file formats to the "Video Game Asset Archive" file type, you need software like Unreal Engine or a similar tool.
About PAK files
A .PAK file is primarily a compressed archive used to store bulk data assets for video games or web browsers. Developers pack textures, 3D models, audio, and configuration data into a single container to optimize load times. The format is heavily utilized by Unreal Engine for game assets and the Chromium project for browser UI resources. You can read more about it on Wikipedia. Users usually need to convert or unpack these files to modify game assets (modding), translate software, or recover media. The major disadvantage of the .PAK format is its proprietary, closed nature. You cannot naturally browse the contents in Windows Explorer or macOS Finder. Furthermore, many modern game packages use custom zlib compression or encryption, rendering standard extraction software completely useless and forcing users to rely on niche command-line tools. To access the internal files, you must extract or convert the container. For archiving and easy browsing, convert .PAK to ZIP or 7Z. If you need the specific assets for editing or the web, you must extract the files directly to standard targets like PNG for images, WAV for audio, or FBX for 3D models.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PAK file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert PAK file to SAR, QAR, ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, LZMA, CAB or ACE, you can use Unreal Engine or similar software from the "Application and Game Data Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert XXE, 7Z, Z, LHA, DEB, UUE, TAR, LZH, ZIP, PKG, RAR or ARJ files to PAK, try Unreal Engine or another comparable tool in the "Application and Game Data Archive" category.
The PAK 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 PAK converter.