Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ACX file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert ACX to another file type
To convert your ACX file to another format, you need AutoCount Accounting or other Backup software.
Convert a file to ACX
To convert other file formats to the "Financial Data Archive" file type, you need software like AutoCount Accounting or a similar tool.
About ACX files
A .ACX file is primarily associated with AutoCount accounting software, functioning as a compressed backup of financial data. These files are typically standard ZIP containers holding the actual database files (often proprietary or SQL-based), meaning they cannot be directly edited in spreadsheet tools like Microsoft Excel without first being restored or extracted. This proprietary lock-in can be a hassle for users attempting to audit historical data without an active AutoCount license. Additionally, .ACX files are frequently encountered in industrial automation as project archives for Siemens SINAMICS drive systems, specifically generated by the DriveMonitor software. In this context, they contain hardware parameters and logic configurations that are unreadable to standard text editors. For most users, the most practical workflow involves converting or renaming the .ACX to ZIP to access internal contents, or using the original software to export data to CSV or PDF for archival and reporting purposes.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ACX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert ACX file to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC, APE or WV, you can use AutoCount Accounting or similar software from the "Accounting Data Backup" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MIDI, AAC, TTA, AU, WV, DTS, MID, FLAC, RA, MP3, PCM or WAV files to ACX, try AutoCount Accounting or another comparable tool in the "Accounting Data Backup" category.
The ACX Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our ACX converter.