Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SMCL file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert SMCL to another file type
To convert SMCL files to another format, you need Stata or other Text software.
Convert a file to SMCL
To convert other file formats to the "Stata Formatted Log File" file type, you need software like Stata or a similar tool.
About SMCL files
The .smcl file is a Stata Markup and Control Language file used to store formatted log outputs from Stata, a statistical software suite. It records commands, results, and custom formatting generated during statistical analysis. You can natively view these files using the Stata Viewer within the software, which is detailed on Wikipedia's Stata page. The major disadvantage of the .smcl format is its proprietary nature. If you open an .smcl file in a standard text editor like Notepad, you will see messy, raw formatting tags (like '{txt}' or '{res}') instead of clean statistical tables. Sharing these logs with colleagues who do not own an expensive Stata license is practically impossible without conversion. To share your results, you must convert the file. For easy reading, convert to TXT (which strips the markup) or PDF (which preserves the tabular layout). For web publishing, convert to HTML. Drop your file here to view and convert it securely right in your browser.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SMCL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert SMCL file to PDF, LOG or TXT, you can use Stata or similar software from the "Statistical software log storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to SMCL, try Stata or another comparable tool in the "Statistical software log storage" category.
The SMCL 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 SMCL converter.