PBG Converter

Extract text from Machine control or graph files (PBG)


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

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

Convert PBG to another file type

To convert PBG files to another format, you need Bihler VariControl System or other Data software.

Convert a file to PBG

To convert other file formats to the "Industrial Machine Data" file type, you need software like Bihler VariControl System or a similar tool.


About PBG files

A .PBG file is primarily a proprietary Machine Control Program Data file utilized by the Bihler VariControl System, or a legacy Pixel Bender Graph File developed by Adobe Systems. In industrial settings, Bihler machines use .PBG files to store precise operational parameters, tool configurations, and sequence data for automated stamping and forming equipment. On the software development side, Adobe Pixel Bender Toolkit used them to define node-based image processing filters. Both formats present significant challenges. The Bihler format is a closed, hardware-specific proprietary file. It cannot be opened by standard text editors or generic data viewers, requiring the native machine controller software to interpret the machine code. The Adobe .PBG format, while based on XML, is entirely obsolete since Adobe discontinued the technology in 2012. Because these are highly specialized or deprecated formats, standard online converters consistently fail to process them. They lack the proprietary parsers needed to translate industrial machine code or parse legacy graph structures safely. Converting .PBG files to accessible formats like .CSV, .XML, or .TXT usually results in unreadable garbage unless done within the native environment. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

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

Users also converted PNG and JPG files.


FAQ

If you want to convert PBG file to JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB, GO, RS or SWIFT, you can use Bihler VariControl System or similar software from the "Machine Control Program Data" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to PBG, try Bihler VariControl System or another comparable tool in the "Machine Control Program Data" category.



The PBG 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 PBG converter.