XBC Converter

Extract text from SMART Notebook gallery files (XBC)


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

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

Convert XBC to another file type

To convert XBC gallery files to another format, you need SMART Notebook or other Data software.

Convert a file to XBC

To convert other file formats to the "Whiteboard Gallery Archive" file type, you need software like SMART Notebook or a similar tool.


About XBC files

The .XBC file extension is a legacy gallery format developed by SMART Technologies for their SMART Notebook interactive whiteboard software. It functions as a digital container that holds organized collections of teaching materials, including clip art, audio, video, notes, and older NBK files. To open or manage these files natively, users traditionally relied on older versions of the SMART Notebook application. The main disadvantage of .XBC files is that they are an outdated, closed, and proprietary format. Modern standard operating systems cannot open them natively, and they require a paid or legacy SMART Board software installation. This makes the files highly inaccessible for educators who have upgraded their hardware, moved to cloud platforms like Google Classroom, or lost access to their original software licenses. Converting an .XBC file typically means extracting its embedded media assets rather than doing a 1-to-1 conversion. The best approach is converting the internal assets to standard formats like JPG or PNG for images, and MP3 or MP4 for media. Note that the interactive whiteboard logic, specific positioning data, and animations will be lost when moving away from the SMART ecosystem. Because this is a closed, proprietary archive format, standard online converters usually fail to process it. Only the original software can properly render the interactive lessons and proprietary XML metadata. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert XBC file to EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP, SAV or DAT, you can use SMART Notebook or similar software from the "Interactive Whiteboard Gallery Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to XBC, try SMART Notebook or another comparable tool in the "Interactive Whiteboard Gallery Storage" category.



The XBC 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 XBC converter.