Extract text from SAFE files
To convert your SAFE file to another format, you need ESA SNAP or other Data software.
To convert other file formats to the "Geospatial Metadata Container" file type, you need software like ESA SNAP or a similar tool.
The .SAFE extension primarily refers to the Standard Archive Format for Europe, a container format used by the European Space Agency (ESA) to package data from Sentinel satellites. These "files" are often actually directories (e.g., Product_Name.SAFE) containing a manifest.safe XML file and subfolders of binary image data (often JP2 or TIFF). The real problem here is that standard image viewers cannot open a .SAFE container directly; you need specialized geospatial software like ESA SNAP to render the spectral bands into a viewable image. For general use or reporting, users typically need to convert the XML metadata to PDF or extract the raster data to standard GeoTIFF or PNG formats.
However, a significant number of .SAFE files encountered by home users are actually victims of ransomware (such as SafePlace or CryptXXX). In this scenario, your documents and photos have been encrypted and renamed with the .SAFE extension. These files cannot be "converted" in the traditional sense; they must be decrypted using a specific key or restored from backup. Finally, .SAFE is also used by ComponentAce for Absolute Database files. These are single-file, relational database containers used in Delphi applications. Because this format is proprietary and lacks widespread driver support, users often struggle to access their data without the original application. The best workflow here is converting the tables to CSV, SQL, or Excel formats for migration to more accessible systems.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SAFE file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted AAE, ZIP, PNG, CONF, CISO, TXT, CRYPT14, SF2, TMDX, ENC, RVZ, JPG and PDF files.
If you want to convert SAFE file to BASE64, HEX, BIN, ENC, CRYPT, AES, DES, RSA, PGP, GPG, ASC or KEY, you can use ESA SNAP or similar software from the "Sentinel Satellite Data Container" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert CER, BIN, PEM, DER, KEY, P7S, PFX, ENC, P12, BASE64, P7B or HEX files to SAFE, try ESA SNAP or another comparable tool in the "Sentinel Satellite 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 SAFE converter.