UFDX Converter

Extract text from Forensic index files (UFDX)


Drop or upload your .UFDX file
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How to extract text from your UFDX file

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

Convert UFDX to another file type

To convert UFDX Index files to another format, you need Cellebrite Physical Analyzer or other Data software.

Convert a file to UFDX

To convert other file formats to the "Forensic Dump File" file type, you need software like Cellebrite Physical Analyzer or a similar tool.


About UFDX files

The .UFDX file is a forensic evidence collection file primarily generated by Cellebrite UFED (Universal Forensic Extraction Device). Law enforcement, military, and corporate cybersecurity professionals use these files to store logical and physical data extractions from mobile phones, tablets, and GPS devices. It functions as a master index or structured data container, written internally as XML, that organizes call logs, text messages, and application data extracted during an investigation. To properly open and analyze a .UFDX file, users typically need expensive, specialized software like Cellebrite Physical Analyzer. This creates a massive disadvantage for independent investigators, legal defense teams, or individuals who receive these files during discovery but lack the $10,000+ software license required to read them. Furthermore, .UFDX files are completely unsupported by standard text editors or web browsers out of the box. They are heavily reliant on a specific directory structure; moving the file away from its accompanying data dumps often breaks the extraction entirely. When converting .UFDX, the best target formats are XML for raw data parsing, CSV for importing tables into spreadsheets, or PDF and HTML for readable reports. Much of the visual reporting generated by Cellebrite will be lost during a raw conversion. Because this is a closed, proprietary format designed specifically for forensic integrity, standard online converters fail to process it. The internal schema is complex and tightly coupled to Cellebrite's proprietary reporting engines. This is why .UFDX files are extremely difficult to open or convert without the original software. However, convert.guru provides a pragmatic workaround. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. Because the internal format is based on XML, our analysis engine can inspect the file, bypass the proprietary wrapper, and show the underlying text. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert UFDX file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Cellebrite Physical Analyzer or similar software from the "Digital Forensic Data Extraction" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to UFDX, try Cellebrite Physical Analyzer or another comparable tool in the "Digital Forensic Data Extraction" category.



The UFDX 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 UFDX converter.