Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your URF file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert URF to another file type
To convert URF files to another format, you need Apple AirPrint or other Raster Image software.
Convert a file to URF
To convert other file formats to the "AirPrint Spool File" file type, you need software like Apple AirPrint or a similar tool.
About URF files
The .URF file extension is primarily associated with the Universal Raster Format (Unirast) used by Apple AirPrint. This format allows iOS and macOS devices to send rasterized page images directly to printers without installing vendor-specific drivers. Secondarily, .URF is used by Epic Games as an Unreal Tournament replay file or Unreal Engine resource file, and by UniTek for motor controller drive data. The main disadvantage of a .URF file is its highly proprietary and specialized nature. If you intercept an AirPrint .URF file, you cannot easily open it on a standard PC because it lacks native support in web browsers or default image viewers like Windows Photos. Standard online converters frequently fail to process it because the internal structure is specific to Apple's print spooling system. Similarly, Unreal Engine replays or UniTek data files are completely locked into their respective software ecosystems. To view the contents of an AirPrint .URF file, it usually needs to be converted into a standard raster format like JPG or PNG, or a document format like PDF. However, game replays and industrial controller data cannot be converted to standard documents, as they contain proprietary binary data, not images or text. This file format is difficult to open or convert. Often only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your URF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert URF file to TMP, TEMP, CACHE, LOG, BAK, OLD, NEW, PART, DOWNLOAD, CRDOWNLOAD, LOCK or PID, you can use Apple AirPrint or similar software from the "Driverless Raster Print Spooling" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DEVICE, CACHE, SOCK, SYMLINK, PID, MOUNT, FIFO, LOG, PIPE, TMP, JUNCTION or TEMP files to URF, try Apple AirPrint or another comparable tool in the "Driverless Raster Print Spooling" category.
The URF 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 URF converter.