Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your RIFF file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert RIFF to another file type
To convert RIFF images to another format, you need Corel Painter or other Data software.
Convert a file to RIFF
To convert other file formats to the "Multimedia Container / Image" file type, you need software like Corel Painter or a similar tool.
About RIFF files
.RIFF files usually serve as either a Resource Interchange File Format container developed by Microsoft and IBM, or a Raster Image File Format used by Corel Painter. As a multimedia container, RIFF uses tagged chunks to store audio and video, serving as the underlying architecture for familiar formats like WAV and AVI. As an image format, it saves high-resolution, layered artwork created in Corel Painter (originally by Fractal Design). The main disadvantage of the .RIFF format is its ambiguity and lack of native support. A raw multimedia .RIFF file is a generic container that most standard media players reject unless renamed to WAV or AVI. The Corel Painter .RIFF image format is heavily proprietary; it requires an expensive software license to open, and standard web browsers or basic image viewers cannot read it. To share these files, you must convert them. Convert Painter images to PNG or JPG for web sharing, or PSD to retain layers in Adobe Photoshop. Convert multimedia RIFFs to standard audio formats like MP3. Note that converting Painter files to flat images will permanently merge your layers and brush strokes. This format is notoriously difficult to process because standard online converters fail to parse the proprietary Painter data or identify the specific multimedia payload inside the chunk structure.
Convert.Guru analyzes your RIFF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert RIFF file to JPG, PNG, WAV, PDF, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TIF, WEBP, ICO, CUR or PSD, you can use Corel Painter or similar software from the "Multimedia Container / Raster Image" 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 RIFF, try Corel Painter or another comparable tool in the "Multimedia Container / Raster Image" category.
The RIFF 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 RIFF converter.