Download and install the latest version of Filestar.
Right click on one or more Pfm file(s) on your desktop and select Convert with Filestar.
Type convert to pbm in the search box.
Press Convert.
Or let an AI agent do it: filestarcli -i photo.pfm -c "convert to pbm" (how).
Let your AI agent convert Portable Float Map to PBM
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can do this on your computer with Filestar. Your files stay on your machine.
Install Filestar and add it to your agents:
npm install -g filestar
filestarcli agent install
Then ask your agent:
“Convert the Portable Float Map files in my Downloads folder to PBM”
Or run it yourself:
filestarcli -i photo.pfm -c "convert to pbm"
Runs on your computer, so your files stay on it. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. 50 free conversions with the npm install, no account needed.
Can my AI agent convert Portable Float Map to PBM?
Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i photo.pfm -c "convert to pbm" on your computer, so your files stay on it.
Portable Float Map, an uncompressed high-dynamic-range raster image format that stores each pixel as 32-bit floating-point values, in colour (PF) or greyscale (Pf).
1-bit black and white image; formatted in text format; basic raster image format in which each pixel is represented by a byte that contains a 1 or 0; 1 represents black and 0 represents white pixels.
