Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PEX file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert PEX to another file type
To convert PEX Scripts to another format, you need Creation Kit or other Game software.
Convert a file to PEX
To convert other file formats to the "Compiled Script File" file type, you need software like Creation Kit or a similar tool.
About PEX files
A .pex file is primarily a Compiled Papyrus game script utilized by the Bethesda Creation Engine for popular video games such as Skyrim and Fallout 4. Modders create source scripts in PSC format and compile them into .PEX bytecode so the game engine can execute custom logic. Alternatively, a .pex file may function as a Python Executable Archive created by the PEX tool to bundle Python applications, or as a business plan project file for Project Expert software. The main disadvantage of compiled Papyrus scripts is their proprietary, binary nature. They are unreadable in standard text editors and require specific decompilers to revert back to human-readable code. Modifying game logic directly within the bytecode is practically impossible for standard users. Standard online converters fail to process these files because they lack the specific parsing logic for Bethesda's proprietary bytecode format. Our tools can inspect the hex data or identify if the file is instead a Python archive, extracting readable text strings where supported.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PEX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert PEX file to PVC, PSC, EXE, MSI, APP, DMG, DEB, RPM, PKG, RUN, SH or BAT, you can use Creation Kit or similar software from the "Compiled Game Script" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert JAR, APP, SCR, IPA, COM, AAB, PS1, DMG, VBS, EXE, XAPK or MSI files to PEX, try Creation Kit or another comparable tool in the "Compiled Game Script" category.
The PEX 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 PEX converter.