PUPPET Converter

Extract text from Character Animator puppets (PUPPET)


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

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

Convert PUPPET to another file type

To convert PUPPET puppets to another format, you need Adobe Character Animator or other Data software.

Convert a file to PUPPET

To convert other file formats to the "Character Rigging Archive" file type, you need software like Adobe Character Animator or a similar tool.


About PUPPET files

A .PUPPET file is an exported character rig used exclusively in Adobe Character Animator. It contains 2D artwork bundled with complex physics, behaviors, and facial tracking data used for real-time live animation and streaming. To natively open and interact with a .PUPPET file, users must use Adobe Character Animator, which requires a paid Creative Cloud subscription. Users frequently seek to convert or extract these files because the format is highly proprietary and fundamentally useless outside the Adobe ecosystem. The format has major disadvantages: it requires an expensive monthly subscription to read, files often exceed hundreds of megabytes due to embedded high-resolution graphics, and the data cannot be natively viewed in standard web browsers, media players, or basic image editors. The ideal target conversions are standard video formats like .MP4 or .MOV for animated output, or extracting the underlying graphic assets as .PSD (Photoshop) or .AI (Illustrator) files. However, converting to video natively requires rendering a recorded performance, meaning all interactive live-tracking capabilities are completely lost in the export process. This file format is notoriously difficult to open or convert online. It is essentially a proprietary archive containing internal JSON rigging metadata and embedded artwork. Because it lacks a rendered video stream, traditional converters fail to process it. Only the original software can properly calculate the physics and export the animated data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert PUPPET file to , you can use Adobe Character Animator or similar software from the "Live 2D Character Rigging" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to PUPPET, try Adobe Character Animator or another comparable tool in the "Live 2D Character Rigging" category.



The PUPPET 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 PUPPET converter.