SWD Converter

Extract text from SWD files

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Drop or upload your .SWD file

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How to extract text from your SWD file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SWD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert SWD to another file type

To convert your SWD file to another format, you need Adobe Flash or other GIS software.

Convert a file to SWD

To convert other file formats to the "Cadastral Data Exchange" file type, you need software like Adobe Flash or a similar tool.

About SWD files

The .SWD filename extension is a classic example of a "homograph" in the digital world - one wrapper used by two completely unrelated industries. Most commonly, you are dealing with either a legacy Adobe Flash debug file or a Polish Cadastral data exchange file.

1. Flash Debug File (Legacy Web): created by older versions of Adobe Flash Professional, this file acts as a sidecar to the main SWF movie. It holds variable names, source code line numbers, and error-tracking data.

The Problem: It is not a video file. Users often find these in browser caches hoping to recover a lost animation, only to find they cannot open it in a media player. It requires the original Flash authoring environment to be useful.
Conversion Targets: Since it is structured data, it is best converted to TXT or XML to view the debug logs, though it cannot be converted back into a playable animation.

2. SWDE Cadastral Map (GIS/Geodesy): In Poland, the .SWD format (Standard Wymiany Danych Ewidencyjnych) is the standard for exchanging land registry and building data.

The Problem: This is a highly specialized text-based format often encoded in older character sets (like Mazovia), making it unreadable in standard text editors or global GIS software like ArcGIS.

Convert.Guru analyzes your SWD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted SWRD, SDW, SWF, PNG, SAM, MPH and VTX files.

FAQ

If you want to convert SWD file to JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB, GO, RS or SWIFT, you can use Adobe Flash or similar software from the "Debug Info or GIS Data" 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 SWD, try Adobe Flash or another comparable tool in the "Debug Info or GIS Data" category.

The SWD 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 SWD converter.