Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WEIGHTS file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert WEIGHTS to another file type
To convert WEIGHTS weights to another format, you need Darknet or other Developer software.
Convert a file to WEIGHTS
To convert other file formats to the "Machine Learning Model" file type, you need software like Darknet or a similar tool.
About WEIGHTS files
The .weights file format stores the trained parameters of a neural network, primarily used by the Darknet framework for the YOLO (You Only Look Once) object detection system. These files contain millions of floating-point numbers representing the learned connections between neurons. To utilize a .weights file, developers typically use Darknet or adapt it for TensorFlow and PyTorch. Working with the original .weights format has significant disadvantages. The format is a raw, proprietary binary dump of arrays that lacks structural metadata. It is completely unreadable unless paired with its exact corresponding cfg (configuration) file, which defines the network architecture. Furthermore, these files are often massive (frequently exceeding 200MB) and are not natively supported by modern web browsers or mobile deployment environments. Developers frequently need to convert .weights files to more standardized, interoperable formats like .ONNX, PB (TensorFlow), or PT (PyTorch). Converting to these targets allows for model quantization, optimization, and edge hardware deployment, though minor mathematical precision may be lost during the process. This file format is exceptionally difficult to open or convert. Emphasize that often only the original software can properly read or export the data. Standard online converters fail entirely because interpreting the raw binary data requires knowing the specific layers and node structures defined in the separate configuration file. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your WEIGHTS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert WEIGHTS file to PT, HF, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF or DAT, you can use Darknet or similar software from the "Neural Network Model Storage" 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 WEIGHTS, try Darknet or another comparable tool in the "Neural Network Model Storage" category.
The WEIGHTS 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 WEIGHTS converter.