Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ADJ file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert ADJ to another file type
To convert ADJ Documents to another format, you need Microsoft Word or other Data software.
Convert a file to ADJ
To convert other file formats to the "Adjacency Matrix File" file type, you need software like Microsoft Word or a similar tool.
About ADJ files
The .ADJ file extension represents multiple completely different file formats, which frequently causes confusion for operating systems and users. Most commonly (13% of cases), it functions as an attached document file used by Microsoft Word or LibreOffice. Under the hood, this specific variation is a standard ZIP archive containing structured data. Beyond office software, the .ADJ extension is used extensively in scientific and linguistic fields. It acts as a landscape metrics adjacency matrix for FRAGSTATS, an adjective database file in the WordNet lexical database by Princeton University, and a graph adjacency list in Pajek network analysis software. The biggest disadvantage of the .ADJ format is its fragmentation. Operating systems like Windows and macOS cannot reliably assign a default program to open it. Double-clicking an .ADJ file usually results in an error. Furthermore, files generated by niche academic software like FRAGSTATS or Pajek require highly specific, often outdated desktop applications to view natively. To utilize the data locked inside these files, conversion is the most pragmatic solution. For attached documents, converting the file to ZIP allows you to extract the raw contents, while converting to DOCX or PDF is best for reading and printing. For scientific adjacency matrices and WordNet lists, converting the file to CSV, JSON, or TXT allows you to easily import the raw node data into modern tools like Microsoft Excel or Python dataframes.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ADJ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert ADJ file to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC, APE or WV, you can use Microsoft Word or similar software from the "Attached Document & Matrix Storage" 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 ADJ, try Microsoft Word or another comparable tool in the "Attached Document & Matrix Storage" category.
The ADJ 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 ADJ converter.