ADB Converter

Extract text from ADB files


Drop or upload your .ADB file
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How to extract text from your ADB file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ADB file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert ADB to another file type

To convert your ADB file to another format, you need Absolute Database or other Database software.

  • ADB to ARB
  • ADB to PDF
  • ADB to DB
  • ADB to SQLITE
  • ADB to SQLITE3
  • ADB to MDB
  • ADB to ACCDB
  • ADB to DBF
  • ADB to ODB
  • ADB to FDB
  • ADB to GDB
  • ADB to MYD

Convert a file to ADB

To convert other file formats to the "Relational Database File" file type, you need software like Absolute Database or a similar tool.

  • NDF to ADB
  • SQLITE3 to ADB
  • BAK to ADB
  • RDB to ADB
  • SQL to ADB
  • DB4 to ADB
  • MDF to ADB
  • MDB to ADB
  • LDF to ADB
  • DB to ADB
  • DB3 to ADB
  • SQLITE to ADB

About ADB files

The .adb file extension is a polymorphic format that most frequently functions as an Absolute Database file, a single-file embedded database replacement for the Borland Database Engine (BDE) in Delphi applications. It acts as a compact, high-speed container for relational data, triggers, and stored procedures. Alternatively, .adb files serve as Ada Body files, containing the implementation logic for the Ada programming language (distinct from ads specifications). In mobile contexts, users may encounter them as Android backup files generated via the Android Debug Bridge.

The primary issue with Absolute Database files is proprietary lock-in; they are single-file database systems that cannot be opened by standard SQL clients like DBeaver or Microsoft Excel without specific drivers or the ComponentAce SDK. This makes data extraction for reporting or migration difficult. Similarly, while Ada source files are plain text, they require specific compilers like GNAT to execute, and Android backups are often compressed or encrypted binaries that are unreadable without extraction tools.

For Database variants (Absolute, SQLite, or Jet), the best conversion target is CSV or XLSX for data analysis and reporting, or standard SQL dumps for migrating to systems like MySQL or PostgreSQL. For Ada Source Code, converting to PDF or HTML is ideal for code documentation and archiving.

Convert.Guru analyzes your ADB file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted AD55B1JG, ABD, PDF, PSD, JPG, JPEG, APK, APX, AWW, APH and ARB files.



The ADB 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 ADB converter.