CT5 Converter

Extract text from CorelDRAW 5 and data files (CT5)

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Drop or upload your .CT5 file

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How to extract text from your CT5 file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your CT5 file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert CT5 to another file type

To convert CT5 files to another format, you need CorelDRAW or other Vector Image software.

Convert a file to CT5

To convert other file formats to the "Legacy Drawing File" file type, you need software like CorelDRAW or a similar tool.

About CT5 files

The .ct5 extension is a chaotic relic associated with three distinct, incompatible ecosystems. Most commonly (35%), it is a CorelDRAW 5 drawing file - a legacy vector format from 1994 that modern design software (including recent CorelDRAW versions and Adobe Illustrator) often fails to render correctly due to obsolete color tables and compression methods. These files are typically stuck on old floppy disks or archive drives, containing vector paths used for vinyl cutting or embroidery layouts (often linked to Graphtec or CutStudio workflows).

Alternatively, a .ct5 file might be a 'Correction Table' used by the JeeHell FMGS (Flight Management Guidance System) for A320 flight simulators, or a data acquisition file from older Dewesoft D3 systems.

The friction here is high: you likely lack the 16-bit Windows 3.1 environment needed to run the original software, or the niche hardware dongles required for the industrial tools.

Best Conversion Targets:

For Design/Print: Convert CorelDRAW .ct5 files to PDF or SVG. This preserves vector scalability for modern editing in Inkscape or Illustrator.
For Data/Simulation: Convert Dewesoft or JeeHell .ct5 tables to CSV or XLSX. This liberates the raw data for analysis in Microsoft Excel without needing the original proprietary logging software.

Convert.Guru analyzes your CT5 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted CT, HXF, A1, ITD and CT4 files.

FAQ

If you want to convert CT5 file to INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV, PROPERTIES or RC, you can use CorelDRAW or similar software from the "Legacy Vector Graphics Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to CT5, try CorelDRAW or another comparable tool in the "Legacy Vector Graphics Storage" category.

The CT5 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 CT5 converter.