Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert BD to another file type
To convert BD Databases to another format, you need Infor LN or other Data software.
Convert a file to BD
To convert other file formats to the "Multipurpose Data File" file type, you need software like Infor LN or a similar tool.
About BD files
The .bd file extension is a highly fragmented and overloaded format. Primarily, it functions as a Baan ERP print spool file, an SQLite version 3 database, or a proprietary data archive for games like Black Desert Online. In engineering environments, it is used as a Vivado Block Design file containing plain text. Because so many different systems use the .bd extension, users face severe compatibility challenges. You cannot simply double-click the file; your operating system will not know which application to launch. Baan ERP spool files are essentially raw printer data that are useless outside of the Infor LN ecosystem, requiring expensive enterprise software to process. Similarly, game data archives are heavily compressed and proprietary, locking away the assets. To make this data usable, conversion is highly recommended. Database variants should be converted to standard CSV or SQL formats to share the tabular data, though you will lose the relational table structure. ERP spool files are best exported to PDF or plain TXT for archiving and readability. Because .bd files lack a single standardized structure, traditional online converters almost always fail. They cannot guess which variant you uploaded. This format is notoriously difficult to open without the exact original software that created it. Our analyzer will inspect the binary signature of your .bd file. If it detects an underlying SQLite database, a JSON block design, or even a masquerading PDF, viewing and conversion may still be perfectly viable.
Convert.Guru analyzes your BD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert BD file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Infor LN or similar software from the "ERP Spool & Database Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to BD, try Infor LN or another comparable tool in the "ERP Spool & Database Storage" category.
The BD 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 BD converter.