AXD Converter

Extract text from AXD files

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Drop or upload your .AXD file

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How to extract text from your AXD file

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

Convert AXD to another file type

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

AXD to PDF
AXD to HTML
AXD to HTM
AXD to CSS
AXD to JS
AXD to PHP
AXD to ASP
AXD to ASPX
AXD to JSP
AXD to JSPX
AXD to PY
AXD to RB

Convert a file to AXD

To convert other file formats to the "Server Side Script" file type, you need software like Microsoft ASP.NET or a similar tool.

RSS to AXD
CSS to AXD
CGI to AXD
SITEMAP to AXD
PL to AXD
WEBMANIFEST to AXD
JSON to AXD
JS to AXD
XML to AXD
HTML to AXD
ICO to AXD
HTM to AXD

About AXD files

The .AXD extension typically represents one of two distinct file types, creating confusion for users who encounter them.

Most commonly, an .AXD file is an ASP.NET Web Handler file (often named WebResource.axd or ScriptResource.axd). These are not standard static files but dynamic responses generated by a server running Microsoft ASP.NET. Users often end up with these files on their hard drive when a browser download fails to interpret the correct MIME type - meaning you intended to save a PDF document or JPG image, but the server handed you an .AXD wrapper instead. In this state, the file is unreadable by standard viewers, effectively locking you out of the content (images, scripts, or documents) hidden inside.

Alternatively, in engineering environments, .AXD refers to a vector drawing created by IGE+XAO SEE Electrical. These are proprietary CAD files used for circuit diagrams and wiring schematics. The major drawback here is interoperability; these files cannot be opened by standard CAD tools like AutoCAD or viewing software like Adobe Acrobat without conversion.

To solve these accessibility issues, the recommended conversion workflow depends on the source:

For Web Downloads: Determine the true file type (often by analyzing the file header) and convert/rename it to its intended format, such as PDF (for documents), JPG or PNG (for images), or JS (for scripts).
For CAD Drawings: Convert the proprietary .AXD to PDF for easy sharing and archiving, or to DXF and DWG to ensure the schematics can be edited in other CAD software.

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

Users also converted ADX, PDF, JPG, HTML, DOWNLOAD, DWG, ZIP, PS, CSS, JPEG, TXT, FSA and AVIF files.

The AXD 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 AXD converter.