ADL Converter

Extract text from Model files (ADL)


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

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

Convert ADL to another file type

To convert ADL models to another format, you need BOC Group ADONIS or other Data software.

Convert a file to ADL

To convert other file formats to the "Model Definition File" file type, you need software like BOC Group ADONIS or a similar tool.


About ADL files

The .ADL file extension primarily represents an ADONIS Definition Language model exported by BOC Group ADONIS, a leading business process management suite. A secondary, yet critical, use for .ADL files is the Archetype Definition Language format. This format is used within the openEHR standard to define health record archetypes and is typically encoded in UTF-8 text. Other specialized uses include AES31 Audio Decision Lists used by Steinberg software and architectural drawing link files for Nemetschek Allplan. Users typically open .ADL process models using BOC Group ADONIS or handle health archetypes using the openEHR ADL Workbench. The main disadvantage of the .ADL format is its highly specialized, fragmented nature. It is heavily tied to either proprietary BPM ecosystems or complex healthcare informatics standards. Standard text editors might open the openEHR variants if they are saved in UTF-8, but interpreting the domain-specific syntax requires dedicated parsers. Without the correct software environment, the files are useless to average users and cannot be viewed in web browsers. To share the data more easily, users often need to convert .ADL files. For ADONIS models, exporting to XML or standard image formats like PNG or PDF is recommended, though structural metadata is lost in visual formats. OpenEHR archetypes are best converted to JSON or XML for broader interoperability in modern healthcare APIs. Because these files contain rigid, domain-specific schemas, they are difficult to convert using standard online tools. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying text or XML structure, viewing or basic conversion may still be possible.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert ADL file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use BOC Group ADONIS or similar software from the "Domain Model Definition Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to ADL, try BOC Group ADONIS or another comparable tool in the "Domain Model Definition Storage" category.



The ADL 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 ADL converter.