PKM Converter

Extract text from PKM files


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

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

Convert PKM to another file type

To convert your PKM file to another format, you need Football Manager or other Game software.

  • PKM to PNG
  • PKM to MP4
  • PKM to CSV
  • PKM to JSON
  • PKM to XML
  • PKM to YAML
  • PKM to YML
  • PKM to TOML
  • PKM to INI
  • PKM to CFG
  • PKM to CONF
  • PKM to DAT

Convert a file to PKM

To convert other file formats to the "Replay & Texture Data" file type, you need software like Football Manager or a similar tool.

  • DBF to PKM
  • XML to PKM
  • SQLITE to PKM
  • XLSX to PKM
  • SQL to PKM
  • TSV to PKM
  • ACCDB to PKM
  • YAML to PKM
  • MDB to PKM
  • CSV to PKM
  • ODS to PKM
  • JSON to PKM

About PKM files

The .pkm file extension primarily identifies a Packed Match replay file generated by Football Manager, the popular sports simulation game. These files store the raw simulation data (coordinates, tactics, RNG seeds) required to reconstruct a match within the game engine, rather than containing actual video frames. Because of this, .pkm files are proprietary and cannot be directly converted to .MP4 or .AVI using standard video converters; users must play the file inside Football Manager and use screen recording software like OBS Studio to create a shareable video.

In a completely different context (approx. 22% of files), .pkm represents an ETC Compressed Texture. These are specialized graphics used in Android app development and OpenGL ES rendering. Unlike standard JPG or PNG images, these files are optimized for GPU compression (using the Ericsson Texture Compression standard) and will not open in default image viewers like Windows Photos or Preview. Developers use tools like the Mali Texture Compression Tool or PVRTexTool to decode these textures into viewable formats. A niche third use involves Pokémon save data, where .pkm files hold the binary data for a single Pokémon entity, editable via PKHeX.

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

Users also converted PK9, TGA, PNG, PMK, JSON, PLIST, ZIP, ATLAS, REC, MP4, KTX, JPG and UDF files.



The PKM 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 PKM converter.