Extract text from Legacy Scratch projects (SCRATCH)
To convert SCRATCH projects to another format, you need Scratch or other Developer software.
To convert other file formats to the "Visual Programming Project" file type, you need software like Scratch or a similar tool.
The .scratch file is a legacy project file created during the early development (versions 0.x) of the Scratch visual programming language by MIT. These files contain block-based code scripts, 2D sprites, and audio elements used to build basic interactive stories and games. To open them natively, you must use vintage, archived builds of the original Scratch offline editor, which was built entirely on Squeak Smalltalk.
Users typically need to convert these files because the .scratch format is completely obsolete and heavily restricted. It is a proprietary binary format that requires a highly specific, outdated runtime environment. It is not supported by modern web browsers, nor can it be opened by modern Scratch 3.0 editors (which use the SB3 format). Files created in the 0.x era are isolated from today's sharing ecosystems, making collaboration or execution on modern devices impossible without complex emulator setups.
The best conversion targets for these projects are modern SB3 files or executable HTML packages to run them in a browser. Alternatively, users often convert the file to a ZIP archive to extract the embedded media assets, such as PNG images or WAV audio files.
This file format is difficult to open or convert because standard online converters cannot parse the proprietary Smalltalk object memory serialization used to store the project. Often, only the original 0.x Scratch software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or extraction of the sprites and sounds may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SCRATCH file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted SB3, SJR, SVG, SPRITE3, SB2, PNG, JPG, HTML, MP3, JSON, EXE, PDF and TXT files.
If you want to convert SCRATCH file to PYTHON, HTML, APK, MP4, LUA, UNITY, GODOT, SNAP, CODE, MP3, WAV or AAC, you can use Scratch or similar software from the "Legacy Visual Programming" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MIDI, AAC, TTA, AU, WV, DTS, MID, FLAC, RA, MP3, PCM or WAV files to SCRATCH, try Scratch or another comparable tool in the "Legacy Visual Programming" 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 SCRATCH converter.