RGF to TCR Converter

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Faithful Reproduction

Every pixel of your RGF image is carefully preserved during TCR conversion. The output accurately represents the original content.

Any Device Works

Access the RGF to TCR converter from your phone, tablet, or computer. A modern web browser is all you need on any platform.

Private and Secure

Your RGF files are deleted right after conversion, and TCR outputs are erased within 24 hours. Your data remains entirely confidential.

How to convert RGF to TCR

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

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Choose tcr 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 tcr file right afterwards

About formats

RGF (Robot Graphics Format) is a simple monochrome bitmap image format used by LEGO Mindstorms EV3 programmable robotics kits, introduced with the EV3 system on September 1, 2013. RGF files store 1-bit (black and white) images designed for display on the EV3 Intelligent Brick's 178x128 pixel monochrome LCD screen. The format uses a minimal structure: a header containing the image width and height as binary values, followed by the pixel data where each bit represents one pixel (1 for black, 0 for white), packed eight per byte in row-major order. RGF images are used as custom display graphics in EV3 programs — students and hobbyists create them for robot status displays, user interfaces, splash screens, and animation frames shown on the brick's screen during program execution. The images are typically designed using LEGO's EV3 software (which includes a built-in image editor) or converted from other formats using community tools. RGF fits within LEGO's broader educational robotics platform, where the Mindstorms system teaches programming, engineering, and computational thinking to students worldwide. One advantage is the format's role in educational technology: RGF provides a simple, concrete example of how digital images are represented as binary data — a concept that students working with Mindstorms can directly observe by examining the file contents and seeing the corresponding image on the brick's screen. The format's simplicity makes it accessible for young programmers learning about file formats and binary data. RGF files can be created and converted using ImageMagick, the EV3 development environment, and community tools like ev3dev.
Developer: The LEGO Group
Initial release: 2013
TCR (Text Compression for Reader) is a compressed plain-text ebook format developed by Barry Childress in the early 1990s for the Psion Series 3 family of palmtop computers. The format was created for Childress's Reader3 application, a text file viewer that needed to fit large books into the Psion's extremely limited storage — typically 128 KB to 2 MB of available memory. TCR uses a dictionary-based compression scheme derived from the earlier ZVR format by Ian Giddings, replacing repeated byte sequences with single-byte tokens that reference a header dictionary. This straightforward approach achieves compression ratios of roughly 40-60% on typical English prose while requiring minimal CPU resources for decompression. The Psion Series 3 ran on a 3.84 MHz NEC V30 processor with no floating-point unit, so TCR's low computational overhead was essential for smooth page-by-page reading. A key advantage is remarkable storage efficiency for its simplicity — users could carry dozens of novels on removable SSD cards that held only a few hundred kilobytes. The format found a dedicated user community among Psion enthusiasts who built libraries of compressed literature for portable reading years before smartphones existed. Though the Psion platform faded from the market in the early 2000s, TCR files can still be opened and converted by modern ebook tools, and the format stands as an early example of purpose-built mobile reading technology from the pre-smartphone era.
Developer: Barry Childress
Initial release: 1993

Frequently Asked Questions

Why convert RGF to TCR?

TCR embeds the image in a structured document layout, making RGF content easy to distribute, annotate, and print anywhere.

What programs open TCR files?

View TCR files using the appropriate reader application — free options exist for every major operating system and mobile platform.

What makes RGF files distinctive?

RGF images are extremely small monochrome graphics — designed to fit on a tiny LEGO robot LCD screen. They represent a unique niche in imaging.

Which platforms are supported?

Every platform with a modern browser works — Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, iOS, and Android all run the RGF to TCR converter perfectly.

Is batch RGF to TCR conversion supported?

You can queue multiple RGF files and convert them to TCR in one go. Each file processes independently and downloads separately.