Extract text from ARTICLE files
To convert your ARTICLE file to another format, you need Adobe Digital Publishing Suite or other Page Layout software.
To convert other file formats to the "Mobile App Content" file type, you need software like Adobe Digital Publishing Suite or a similar tool.
A .article file is primarily associated with legacy digital publishing workflows, most notably Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS). These files act as containers - often structurally identical to ZIP archives - that package HTML, CSS, images, and metadata to render a single article within a mobile magazine app. A significant number of files with this extension are also simply PDF documents that have been renamed or exported with a non-standard extension by specific content management systems.
The main limitation for users is that .article files are not recognized by standard desktop software like web browsers or Microsoft Word. Because they are designed for app consumption rather than direct viewing, opening them often results in errors or binary gibberish. Users are frequently locked out of the content unless they have the specific authoring environment installed.
For most users, the goal is simply to read the text or view the images. The most practical conversion targets are PDF for reading the layout as intended, or ZIP to extract the underlying assets (like JPG images or HTML text). If the source is a simple text export (common in educational tools like OneStopEnglish), converting to TXT or DOCX makes the content editable.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ARTICLE file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted PDF, DOCX, SRVC, 05, LX, TEXT, VIDEO, AUDIO and REFERENCE files.
If you want to convert ARTICLE file to PDF, TEXT, VIDEO, AUDIO, REFERENCE, INDD, QXP, PUB, PMD, PM6, PM7 or PM8, you can use Adobe Digital Publishing Suite or similar software from the "Digital Publication Package" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MDI, PUB, PDP, PM4, P65, COMIC, WEBTEMPLATE, PMD, SPUB, INDD, PM5 or QXP files to ARTICLE, try Adobe Digital Publishing Suite or another comparable tool in the "Digital Publication Package" category.
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 ARTICLE converter.