PEKEY Converter

Extract text from PhysicsEditor license keys (PEKEY)


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

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

Convert PEKEY to another file type

To convert PEKEY license keys to another format, you need PhysicsEditor or other Settings software.

Convert a file to PEKEY

To convert other file formats to the "License Key File" file type, you need software like PhysicsEditor or a similar tool.


About PEKEY files

The .pekey file is a proprietary license key format used to activate PhysicsEditor, a 2D collision shape generation tool created by CodeAndWeb. These files contain the encrypted alphanumeric strings required to unlock the full features of the software. The primary disadvantage of the .pekey format is its highly restricted nature. It is a closed, proprietary file designed exclusively for one application. You cannot open it natively in standard text editors without seeing garbled hash data, and it serves no purpose outside the PhysicsEditor ecosystem. Users often struggle with these files when trying to retrieve their license information for backup or migration purposes. Converting a .pekey file to standard formats like TXT or PDF is generally not recommended if you want to keep the file functional. However, if you simply need to extract the raw text or inspect the encoded string, converting to TXT is the most practical target. This file format is exceptionally difficult to open or convert because it is specifically designed to prevent tampering. Standard online converters fail because they do not recognize the proprietary schema.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert PEKEY file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use PhysicsEditor or similar software from the "Software License Activation" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to PEKEY, try PhysicsEditor or another comparable tool in the "Software License Activation" category.



The PEKEY 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 PEKEY converter.