01 / Fast steps
- Drop or select your .cr2 files.
- The embedded JPEG is located and extracted instantly.
- Download the JPG files, zipped automatically for big batches.
CR2 to JPG Converter
Drop Canon CR2 files and get JPG photos you can open, send and print anywhere. The camera already developed a full-size JPEG inside every raw file, and this tool extracts it in your browser without uploading anything.
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02 / Best for
- Open Canon raw photos on a computer without Digital Photo Professional or Lightroom.
- Send a quick selection to a client without developing the raws first.
- Get usable images off a card full of CR2 files when you only need the pictures.
03 / Why here
- The JPEG is extracted, not re-encoded, so you get the camera's own rendering with zero generation loss.
- A byte copy rather than a raw development, so large batches finish in seconds.
- Nothing is uploaded: a shoot stays on your machine.
04 / Keep in mind
- This handles CR2, the format Canon used from roughly 2004 to 2018. It does not handle CR3, written by every EOS R and recent M model, because CR3 is a different container built on ISO base media rather than TIFF.
- It extracts the preview the camera developed; it is not a raw development, so exposure and white balance cannot be changed here.
- Portrait shots are rotated upright, which is the one case where the JPEG is re-encoded.
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Good to know
Questions & answers
01What is a CR2 file?
CR2, Canon Raw version 2, is the raw format Canon DSLRs wrote from about 2004 until 2018. It is a TIFF container holding the unprocessed readings of every sensor photosite, at 12 or 14 bits, behind a colour filter mosaic, plus the shot settings and a JPEG preview. A raw file is not a picture yet: software has to develop it by reconstructing full colour at each pixel and applying white balance and a tone curve, which is why a CR2 will not open in most applications.
02What is the difference between CR2 and CR3?
They share a purpose and almost nothing else. CR2 is built on TIFF, so its internal directory can be walked by any software that understands TIFF, which is why tools like this one can read it. CR3, introduced with the EOS M50 in 2018 and used by the entire EOS R line, moved to the ISO base media container, the same family as MP4, and Canon documented far less of it. That is why support for CR3 arrived slowly across the industry, and why this tool covers CR2 only rather than pretending otherwise.
03Is the extracted JPG the full resolution?
On practically every Canon body that writes CR2, yes: the embedded preview is a full-size JPEG, because the camera needs it to show you the shot on the rear screen at full magnification. Very early bodies embedded a smaller one. The tool always takes the largest JPEG in the file, so you get the best the camera stored.
04Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
No. The CR2 container is parsed by JavaScript in your browser tab and the extracted JPG is written straight to your disk. Raw files are the master copies of somebody's photography, which is exactly the kind of file that should not be handed to a converter's server.