SWI Converter

Extract text from SWIFT statements and SWiSH projects (SWI)


Drop or upload your .SWI file

How to extract text from your SWI file

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

Convert SWI to another file type

To convert SWI files to another format, you need SWiSH Max or other Data software.

Convert a file to SWI

To convert other file formats to the "Bank Statement or Project File" file type, you need software like SWiSH Max or a similar tool.


About SWI files

The .SWI file extension is primarily used for three completely different purposes: SWIFT Bank Account Statements, SWiSH Max Flash Animation Projects, and Network Switch Firmware Images.

For banking, financial institutions like ABN AMRO and Rabobank export MT940 transaction data as .SWI files. These files contain raw, structured text but are incredibly difficult for standard users to parse without specialized accounting software. You need to convert them to CSV or XLSX for spreadsheet analysis, or to PDF for secure archiving.

For multimedia, .SWI files are proprietary project files created by the discontinued SWiSH Max software, which was historically used to generate Adobe Flash animations. Because Flash is obsolete and SWiSH Max requires legacy hardware and paid licenses to run, opening these files today is a massive headache. They are not supported by modern web browsers. To use these legacy animations in video editors, you must first export the project to SWF, and subsequently convert it to modern formats like MP4 or WEBM.

Finally, network administrators encounter .SWI files as firmware updates for Aruba Networks or HP Enterprise switches. These are binary system files meant for hardware flashing, not editing or document conversion.

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Users also converted SWF, RFU, FWI and VFS files.


FAQ

If you want to convert SWI file to MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP, OGV, ASF or RM, you can use SWiSH Max or similar software from the "Banking Data or Legacy Animation" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MTS, MOV, RMVB, DIVX, RM, H264, TS, WMV, VOB, MP4, XVID or AVI files to SWI, try SWiSH Max or another comparable tool in the "Banking Data or Legacy Animation" category.



The SWI 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 SWI converter.