PIXADEX Converter

Extract text from icon collection files (PIXADEX)


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

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

Convert PIXADEX to another file type

To convert PIXADEX icon collections to another format, you need Pixadex or other Raster Image software.

Convert a file to PIXADEX

To convert other file formats to the "Legacy Icon Library" file type, you need software like Pixadex or a similar tool.


About PIXADEX files

The .pixadex file is a proprietary icon collection archive originally created by Pixadex, a legacy Mac OS X application developed by The Iconfactory and Panic. Pixadex acted as an 'iPhoto for icons,' allowing users to organize and store custom desktop icons. Because Pixadex has been obsolete for over a decade and was eventually merged into the now-discontinued CandyBar application, opening a .pixadex file on modern operating systems is nearly impossible without emulation or legacy PowerPC hardware. It is a closed, proprietary format designed exclusively for early versions of macOS, trapping user graphics inside an inaccessible database. Users typically need to convert these files to recover their custom icon graphics. The best conversion targets are standard image and icon formats like PNG, ICNS (Apple Icon Image), or ICO (Windows Icon). Converting to these formats ensures you can view and use the images on modern systems, though the original organizational metadata will be lost. Because this is a dead, undocumented format, standard online converters usually fail to process it. Only the original software can properly read the library data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format like ICNS within the package, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert PIXADEX file to JPG, PDF, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TIF, WEBP, ICO, CUR, PSD or PSB, you can use Pixadex or similar software from the "Icon Collection Archive" 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 PIXADEX, try Pixadex or another comparable tool in the "Icon Collection Archive" category.



The PIXADEX 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 PIXADEX converter.