PBMP Converter

Extract text from Samsung gallery images (PBMP)


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

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

Convert PBMP to another file type

To convert PBMP images to another format, you need Samsung PC Studio or other Raster Image software.

Convert a file to PBMP

To convert other file formats to the "Samsung Picture File" file type, you need software like Samsung PC Studio or a similar tool.


About PBMP files

A .pbmp file is a legacy Samsung Mobile Phone Photo Album or picture file. These files were created by older generation Samsung mobile feature phones to store low-resolution camera images. Historically, users transferred them to computers using proprietary synchronization software like Samsung PC Studio. The main disadvantage of the .PBMP format is its extreme obsolescence. It is a closed, proprietary image format that modern operating systems, web browsers, and standard image viewers cannot read natively. Attempting to open these files on Windows or macOS today usually results in an unsupported file error. To view or share these historical images, users must convert them to standard raster formats like .JPG or .PNG. Converting to .JPG guarantees universal compatibility across all modern devices, while .PNG preserves the original pixels without compression artifacts. This file format is exceptionally difficult to open or convert because the encoding is proprietary to obsolete Samsung hardware ecosystems. Standard online converters often fail to parse the custom header data. However, just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded bitmap format, viewing or conversion may still be successful on convert.guru.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert PBMP file to JPG, PDF, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TIF, WEBP, ICO, CUR, PSD or PSB, you can use Samsung PC Studio or similar software from the "Legacy Mobile Image Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert RAW, PNG, AI, NEF, PSB, DNG, SVG, GIF, EPS, JPG, ARW or PDF files to PBMP, try Samsung PC Studio or another comparable tool in the "Legacy Mobile Image Storage" category.



The PBMP 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 PBMP converter.