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Lightning Fast

OTB files are small and convert to VIPS in seconds. The cloud-based engine handles the transformation quickly so you can download right away.

Simple Interface

Three steps to convert: upload your OTB, select VIPS, and download. The clean interface makes the process intuitive even for first-time users.

Privacy Protected

Your OTB files are deleted immediately after conversion to VIPS. Converted files are automatically removed from servers within 24 hours.

How to convert OTB to VIPS

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Select files from Computer, Google Drive, Dropbox, URL or by dragging it on the page.

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Choose vips or any other format you need as a result (more than 200 formats supported)

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Let the file convert and you can download your vips file right afterwards

About formats

OTB (Over-the-Air Bitmap) is a monochrome image format developed by Nokia as part of their Smart Messaging specification in 1997, designed for transmitting small graphics — operator logos, group graphics, and picture messages — to Nokia mobile phones via SMS. OTB files contain 1-bit (black and white) images at small fixed resolutions, typically 72x14 pixels for operator logos and 72x28 pixels for group graphics, encoded in a compact binary format suitable for embedding within the payload of SMS text messages. The format uses a simple structure: a header byte indicating whether the image is an operator logo or group graphic, width and height values, and the raw bitmap data where each bit represents one pixel packed eight per byte. The extremely tight format — designed to fit within a single SMS message (140 bytes maximum payload, shared with addressing overhead) — reflects the severe constraints of mobile communication in the late 1990s. Nokia's Smart Messaging system was one of the first commercial implementations of rich content delivery to mobile phones, and OTB images represented the entire visual content capability of Nokia handsets before MMS and mobile data browsing arrived. One advantage is the format's historical role as a pioneer of mobile visual messaging: OTB images were among the first graphics that ordinary consumers could send to each other's phones, predating MMS, camera phones, and smartphones by nearly a decade. The format's minimal footprint is another characteristic — entire images fit in a few dozen bytes, reflecting an era of extreme bandwidth constraints. OTB files are supported by ImageMagick, various Nokia phone management tools, and specialty mobile format utilities.
Developer: Nokia
Initial release: 1997
VIPS is the native file format of the libvips) image processing library, originally developed by John Cupitt and Kirk Martinez at the National Gallery in London during the VASARI project (1989-1993) for high-resolution digitization and analysis of paintings. The VIPS format stores large images in a simple, memory-mappable layout: a header containing image dimensions, number of bands (channels), data type (8/16/32-bit integer, float, double, complex), color interpretation, resolution, and offset metadata, followed by the raw pixel data in band-interleaved format. This straightforward layout allows the operating system's virtual memory manager to map the file directly into address space, enabling libvips to process images much larger than available RAM by paging portions in and out as needed — a technique called demand-driven evaluation. VIPS files support images with any number of bands at any of the supported numeric types, accommodating everything from standard RGB photographs to hyperspectral datasets with hundreds of bands. One advantage is large-image performance: libvips's architecture processes images in small tiles evaluated on demand, meaning a 100,000 x 100,000 pixel image can be cropped, resized, sharpened, and saved without loading the entire image into memory — a capability that makes VIPS the engine behind image processing services handling millions of web images. The format's scientific heritage is another strength — the VASARI project required analyzing paintings at ultra-high resolution with multispectral imaging, and the VIPS format's support for arbitrary band counts and floating-point precision reflects these computational imaging origins. VIPS files are primarily used with the libvips library (available for C, Python, Ruby, and other languages) and can be converted to other formats via vips command-line tools or ImageMagick.
Initial release: 1993

Frequently Asked Questions

Why would I convert OTB to VIPS?

Few modern tools handle OTB natively. VIPS provides high-performance scientific image processing format, making it widely recognized across operating systems and applications.

What programs open VIPS files?

Open VIPS using libvips, nip2, ImageMagick. Cross-platform support means you can access these files on virtually any system.

How long does OTB to VIPS conversion take?

Most OTB to VIPS conversions complete within a few seconds. The lightweight nature of OTB images means fast processing times.

Are my uploaded files kept private?

Completely. Convertio removes uploaded OTB files right after conversion, and the VIPS output is automatically deleted within 24 hours.

What exactly is the OTB format?

OTB (Over-The-Air bitmap format for early Nokia phones) originated in Nokia mobile phones. It has very limited modern application support but can be converted to modern formats on Convertio.

Can I convert multiple OTB files to VIPS at once?

Yes — upload several OTB files in one session and Convertio processes them all into VIPS simultaneously, saving you time.