Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SS file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert SS to another file type
To convert SS screenshots to another format, you need EVE Online or other Data software.
Convert a file to SS
To convert other file formats to the "Multi-purpose Data File" file type, you need software like EVE Online or a similar tool.
About SS files
The .SS file extension is heavily fragmented and used by entirely different systems. Typically, it functions as an in-game screenshot for EVE Online, a proprietary music notation project for SmartScore, structured stream data for Microsoft Cosmos, or system diagnostic logs for Brocade Fabric OS and Cisco switches. For gamers, the .SS extension is an annoyance because standard image viewers do not recognize it, despite the files often being standard JPG images underneath. For musicians, the SmartScore format is deeply proprietary; it requires an expensive, niche license to open, and web browsers or standard media players cannot process it at all. System logs and stream files are purely binary or compressed machine data that are unreadable in standard text editors. If you have an EVE Online screenshot, simply renaming the file to JPG or converting it to PNG fixes compatibility immediately. SmartScore notation must be exported from the original software to XML (MusicXML) or MIDI to be usable in mainstream DAWs or notation apps like Sibelius. Because the .SS extension is shared by over a dozen entirely different programs, traditional converters fail because they rely solely on the file extension.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert SS file to PDF, JPG, TEXT, PNG, HD, LINK, JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP or C, you can use EVE Online or similar software from the "Screenshots & Music Notation Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to SS, try EVE Online or another comparable tool in the "Screenshots & Music Notation Storage" category.
The SS 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 SS converter.