CPDX Converter

Extract text from Captivate storyboard projects (CPDX)


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

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

Convert CPDX to another file type

To convert CPDX projects to another format, you need Adobe Captivate or other Data software.

Convert a file to CPDX

To convert other file formats to the "eLearning Project File" file type, you need software like Adobe Captivate or a similar tool.


About CPDX files

A .CPDX file is an Adobe Captivate Storyboard Project typically created using the Adobe Captivate Draft application. It acts as a blueprint for eLearning courses, storing slides, media placeholders, and basic interaction logic. You can open and edit these files natively using Adobe Captivate. However, relying on this format comes with severe disadvantages. It is a closed, proprietary format, meaning you are locked into an expensive Adobe subscription just to view the content. The files can easily exceed 100MB and are completely unsupported by standard web browsers, document readers, or media players. Because of these limits, users frequently need to convert .CPDX files into accessible formats like CPTX for desktop editing, PDF for client reviews, or MP4 for standard video playback. Unfortunately, this file format is notoriously difficult to convert because standard online tools lack Adobe's proprietary rendering engine required to process the interactive branching logic. Standard online converters fail to process it. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format like PNG or JPG assets, viewing or extraction may still be possible.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert CPDX file to , you can use Adobe Captivate or similar software from the "eLearning Storyboard Project Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to CPDX, try Adobe Captivate or another comparable tool in the "eLearning Storyboard Project Storage" category.



The CPDX 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 CPDX converter.