Extract text from RIFF files
To convert your RIFF file to another format, you need Microsoft Windows or other System software.
To convert other file formats to the "Tagged File Structure" file type, you need software like Microsoft Windows or a similar tool.
A .riff file acts as a generic wrapper based on the Resource Interchange File Format, a standard developed by Microsoft and IBM for storing data in tagged chunks. While famous formats like WAV (audio), AVI (video), and WEBP (images) rely on this architecture, files specifically ending in the .riff extension are often raw containers or mislabeled media that standard players fail to recognize. This creates significant compatibility friction; generic media players like VLC or Windows Media Player may not know whether to treat the file as sound, video, or a palette without the specific subtype extension. Furthermore, a .riff file may represent a legacy raster image from Fractal Design Painter (now Corel Painter), a proprietary format that modern image viewers cannot decode.
To resolve these access issues, converting the file is essential. For multimedia containers, identifying the internal stream and converting to WAV or MP3 (for audio) and MP4 or AVI (for video) restores playback capabilities on all devices. For legacy Painter images, converting to JPG or PNG ensures the artwork can be viewed, shared on the web, or archived without requiring expensive, specialized design software.
Convert.Guru analyzes your RIFF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted WEBP, RIF, JPG, WAV, RIFX, PNG, JFIF, MP3, TIFF, CDR, JPEG, AVI and TIF files.
If you want to convert RIFF file to JPG, PNG, WAV, PDF, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TIF, WEBP, ICO, CUR or PSD, you can use Microsoft Windows or similar software from the "Multimedia Data Container" 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 Microsoft Windows or another comparable tool in the "Multimedia Data Container" category.
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.