CLKB Converter

Extract text from Clicker Books files (CLKB)


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

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

Convert CLKB to another file type

To convert CLKB files to another format, you need Clicker or other E-Book software.

Convert a file to CLKB

To convert other file formats to the "Educational Digital Book File" file type, you need software like Clicker or a similar tool.


About CLKB files

A .CLKB file is an educational digital book created by Clicker, a literacy software suite developed by Crick Software. Teachers and students use these files to build interactive talking books that combine text, images, and speech functionality to help young learners. The main disadvantage of the .CLKB format is its strictly proprietary nature. You cannot open these files in standard e-book readers, web browsers, or word processors. Opening them requires a paid, active license for the Clicker ecosystem, which is often restricted to school networks. This creates a frustrating barrier if a student needs to view their work at home without the software installed. When you need to share the content outside the classroom, you must convert the file. The best target formats are PDF for preserving the visual layout or DOCX for editing the text. However, converting to standard formats means you will lose all interactive elements, such as the synchronized text-to-speech audio and clickable reading aids. Because .CLKB is a closed format, standard online converters fail to process it. Usually, only the original Clicker software can properly read the data and export it to a standard document format. Our tool will inspect the .CLKB file. If our analysis detects standard embedded media, XML text data, or an underlying archive structure, viewing or partial conversion of the text and images may still be possible.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert CLKB file to INDD, QXP, PUB, PMD, PM6, PM7, PM8, PM9, PM10, PM11, OMP or P65, you can use Clicker or similar software from the "Educational Digital Book Storage" 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 CLKB, try Clicker or another comparable tool in the "Educational Digital Book Storage" category.



The CLKB 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 CLKB converter.