When JPG is the right image for a DBF table
JPG makes smaller files than PNG, which helps when an email or an upload form has a size limit. The trade-off is lossy compression: JPG smooths fine detail, and small digits in a dense table can look soft. For a table that someone will read closely, DBF to PNG keeps every digit sharp. For a quick preview, a chat message or a form that only takes JPG, this is the better pick.
How to convert DBF to JPG
- Upload the .dbf file at the top of this page.
- Choose JPG as the output.
- Convert and download the images.
Our servers do the conversion. The DBF reader decodes your table into a clean spreadsheet, LibreOffice lays it out in pages, and each page is saved as a JPG with the header row at the top.
What the images show
Field names appear as plain column headings, without the type and width codes our old converter printed. Dates show as dates rather than strings like 19980314, logical fields show TRUE or FALSE, and Visual FoxPro nulls show as blank cells. Text is decoded with the code page recorded in the DBF, or one detected from the text, so accented, Cyrillic and Korean names come out right.
Limits
Tables with too many rows get a message rather than a long stack of images. Use DBF to PDF for a full printable copy or DBF to XLSX to work with the data. dBASE 7 files aren't supported yet, and a file that isn't really a DBF table is rejected with a message.
Related conversions
If a form asks specifically for the .jpeg extension, DBF to JPEG gives the same kind of file with that name. Every DBF output is on the DBF converter page, and the JPG converter covers JPG files.