AU3 Converter

Extract text from AU3 files

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How to extract text from your AU3 file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your AU3 file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert AU3 to another file type

To convert your AU3 file to another format, you need AutoIt or other Developer software.

Convert a file to AU3

To convert other file formats to the "Automation Source Code" file type, you need software like AutoIt or a similar tool.

About AU3 files

A .AU3 file is a source code script written in the AutoIt v3 language, a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. These files typically contain logic to simulate keystrokes, mouse movements, and window manipulations to automate repetitive tasks.

While .AU3 files are powerful for developers, they present significant challenges for distribution and execution. Because they are essentially plain text source files, they require the AutoIt interpreter to be installed on the host machine to run. Sharing a raw .AU3 file exposes your proprietary code to anyone with a text editor and places a burden on the end-user to set up the environment. Additionally, antivirus software often flags raw automation scripts as false positives due to their heuristic behavior.

To overcome these limitations, the standard workflow is to convert .AU3 files to standalone formats:

For Distribution: Convert to EXE (Executable). This allows the script to run on any Windows computer without requiring AutoIt to be installed.
For Documentation: Convert to PDF or TXT to archive the code structure in a non-editable format.
For Migration: Users often seek to translate logic to AHK (AutoHotkey) for broader community support, though this often requires manual adjustments.

Convert.Guru analyzes your AU3 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted AUP3, TXT, EXE, RIDER, JSF, LS, MP3 and WAV files.

FAQ

If you want to convert AU3 file to MP3, EXE, WAV, JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP or RB, you can use AutoIt or similar software from the "Windows GUI Automation Script" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to AU3, try AutoIt or another comparable tool in the "Windows GUI Automation Script" category.

The AU3 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 AU3 converter.