PBMP Converter

Extract text from PBMP files


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 your PBMP file to another format, you need Samsung Gallery or other Raster Image software.

Convert a file to PBMP

To convert other file formats to the "Legacy Mobile Graphic" file type, you need software like Samsung Gallery or a similar tool.


About PBMP files

A .pbmp file is a proprietary raster image format found primarily on older Samsung mobile phones. These files serve as the underlying data for the device's "mobile phone photo album," often representing cached thumbnails or specific graphic elements within the gallery structure. While the format is technically similar to the standard Portable Bitmap (.PBM) format, the obscure .pbmp extension prevents it from opening in modern viewers like Microsoft Photos or Apple Preview. Users typically encounter these files when recovering data from old phone backups, only to find their memories locked in an unreadable format. Because these files are often uncompressed or raw bitmaps, they can be inefficient for storage and impossible to share on social media. To make them usable, the best workflow is converting them to JPG for universal viewing or PNG to preserve image quality without artifacts.

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

Users also converted PAM, X3F and BLP files.


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 Gallery or similar software from the "Mobile Photo 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 Gallery or another comparable tool in the "Mobile Photo 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.