ASP Converter

Extract text from ASP files


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

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

Convert ASP to another file type

To convert your ASP file to another format, you need Microsoft IIS or other Web software.

Convert a file to ASP

To convert other file formats to the "Server-Side Scripting File" file type, you need software like Microsoft IIS or a similar tool.


About ASP files

An .ASP file is primarily known as an Active Server Page, a legacy server-side script format introduced by Microsoft to generate dynamic web pages. These files contain scripts (usually VBScript or JScript) that are processed by a web server - typically Microsoft IIS - to produce standard HTML for web browsers.

A significant difficulty for users involves the "misnamed download" phenomenon. Approximately 40% of users encounter .ASP files accidentally when attempting to download bank statements, invoices, or reports from the web. In these cases, the file is often actually a PDF, CSV, or XLS document, but the server failed to provide the correct file extension or MIME type, leaving the user with a file their computer cannot open. Additionally, developers dealing with legacy web infrastructure often struggle to view or edit these files without specialized IDEs like Visual Studio Code, as standard text editors lack syntax highlighting.

For the common "misnamed file" scenario, the best conversion target is usually PDF or the original document format (like XLSX). For developers needing to archive or review legacy code, converting .ASP to TXT or HTML (capturing the output) ensures the content is readable and preserved.

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

Users also converted ASPX, PDF, HTML, APS, ASF, A2R, VBF, JPG, BIN, TSX, PNG, ASC and ZIP files.


FAQ

If you want to convert ASP file to PDF, ASPX, JPG, PHP, CSV, INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML or YAML, you can use Microsoft IIS or similar software from the "Server-Side Web Script" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to ASP, try Microsoft IIS or another comparable tool in the "Server-Side Web Script" category.



The ASP 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 ASP converter.