Extract text from Digital publications (ARTICLE)
To convert ARTICLE Publications to another format, you need Adobe Digital Publishing Suite or other Page Layout software.
To convert other file formats to the "Digital Publishing Container" file type, you need software like Adobe Digital Publishing Suite or a similar tool.
The .article file extension is a highly fragmented format primarily used in digital publishing and magazine distribution. Most commonly, it acts as a container for digital publication articles created by the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) or Adobe FrameMaker. In these cases, the file is structurally a ZIP archive containing HTML, images, and XML metadata used to render interactive folios. Alternatively, an .article file may simply be a renamed PDF document or an HTML page saved from educational platforms like One Stop English, Twixl Publisher, or magazine reading apps like Magzter.
The main disadvantage of the .article format is its total lack of standardization. Your operating system cannot guess the correct application to open it. Double-clicking the file usually results in an error because it requires specific, often deprecated, proprietary software to render properly. Furthermore, formats tied to legacy publishing suites are essentially locked into abandoned ecosystems, making long-term archival extremely difficult.
Users typically need to convert these files into standard, accessible formats like PDF, HTML, or ZIP to recover the text and media assets. Standard online converters usually fail to process this file type because they rely solely on the file extension rather than analyzing the actual binary content.
This file format is inherently difficult to open without the original authoring software. However, just drag and drop your file into convert.guru to see what it is and convert it if supported. Our platform analyzes the internal file signature rather than just the name. If our analysis detects an underlying PDF or an embedded ZIP structure, viewing or conversion may still be possible, allowing you to bypass the proprietary restrictions.
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 Magazine Publication" 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 Magazine Publication" 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.