Your files never leave this device — 100% in-browser

RAW to JPG Converter

Extracts the JPEG your camera already rendered inside the RAW — byte-identical, never re-encoded, never uploaded.

Every RAW file carries a JPEG the camera itself rendered at capture time — this tool parses the RAW's TIFF structure and hands you that embedded JPEG byte-for-byte: full 5760×3840 from a Canon CR2, full 6016×4016 from a Nikon NEF, in about a second, with zero quality loss because nothing is re-encoded. Multi-gigabyte shoots never leave your machine.

Last verified 2026-08-15 — this tool passed 79 automated end-to-end checks

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Drop RAW files here, or click to browse

converts to JPG · CR2 · NEF · ARW tested — up to 200 MB per file

01 — ZERO RE-ENCODING

Upload converters decode and re-compress, stacking a second generation of JPEG loss. This extracts the camera's own JPEG untouched — what you'd get shooting RAW+JPEG.

02 — SECONDS, NOT MINUTES

No 25 MB upload per frame, no queue. Parsing the TIFF structure and slicing bytes is near-instant, even for a 200-shot card dump.

03 — YOUR SHOOT STAYS YOURS

Client photos, unpublished work, personal archives — RAW files are originals. They are read locally and never transmitted.

How to use

Drop your file(s) into the box above — or click it to browse.
Conversion starts immediately — no settings needed.
Click Download on each finished file — or Download all (.zip) for a batch. Nothing was uploaded at any point.

How a browser converts RAW without a 30 MB decoder

A RAW file is not just sensor data — cameras embed a fully rendered JPEG (it's what the rear LCD shows). Formats from Canon, Nikon and Sony are TIFF containers; this tool walks the IFD tree, collects every embedded image, skips the lossless-JPEG sensor data browsers can't decode, and extracts the largest real JPEG. That file is served to you unmodified — same bytes the camera wrote, including the camera's color rendering, sharpening and white balance.

The honest trade-off: this is the camera's rendering, not a raw development. Exposure recovery, highlight rescue and white-balance changes need a real raw developer (Lightroom, darktable, RawTherapee). For "I need to see / send / cull these shots as JPGs" — the actual reason most people search this — the embedded JPEG is exactly the right answer, and faster than any demosaicing pipeline could ever be.

What the embedded JPEG gives you (verified on real files)
Format	Embedded JPEG	Notes
Canon CR2 (5D III)	5760×3840 — full resolution	IFD0 strip
Nikon NEF (D750)	6016×4016 — full resolution	SubIFD
Sony ARW (α7 II)	1616×1080 preview only	Sony stores no full-size JPEG
Orientation	Preserved from the RAW	Portrait shots stay upright
Metadata	Output is the clean camera JPEG	RAW keeps the originals

When NOT to use this

You plan to edit exposure or color — develop the RAW properly in a raw editor; that is what the format is for.
Sony ARW full-resolution needs — Sony embeds only a 1616×1080 preview (a format limitation, reported honestly in the size readout). Canon and Nikon embed full resolution.
Scientific/forensic work — the embedded JPEG carries the camera's processing; use the raw data.

Frequently asked questions

Is this real RAW development?

No — and that's the point. It extracts the JPEG your camera rendered at capture, byte-identical, instantly. Full demosaicing in the browser is on the roadmap; for editing latitude use a desktop raw developer.

Why is my Sony file only 1616×1080?

Sony ARW files embed only a preview-size JPEG — a format decision by Sony, not a limit of this tool. Canon CR2 and Nikon NEF embed full-resolution JPEGs and extract at full size.

Are my photos uploaded?

No — the RAW is parsed in your browser and the JPEG is sliced out of it locally. For a 40 MB file even the upload time saved is significant; the privacy is the bigger win.