DTO Converter

Extract text from Ditto databases (DTO)


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

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

Convert DTO to another file type

To convert DTO databases to another format, you need Ditto or other Database software.

Convert a file to DTO

To convert other file formats to the "Clipboard Archive" file type, you need software like Ditto or a similar tool.


About DTO files

A .dto file is the proprietary database format used by Ditto, an open-source clipboard extension for Windows, to store a user's entire copy-paste history. Technically, this file is often a standard SQLite database disguised with a custom extension. Users typically encounter these files when attempting to recover lost clipboard data, migrating history to a new computer, or auditing copied information for security purposes. The key problem is that .dto files are binary databases containing 'blobs' of data; you cannot simply double-click them or open them in Microsoft Word to read your snippets. Attempting to do so results in garbled text. Furthermore, the file size can grow indefinitely, causing performance issues. To access the raw data - such as copied text, URLs, or image metadata - the most practical approach is converting the file to CSV (for spreadsheet analysis in Excel) or SQL (for database importation). For recovering specific text clips, conversion to plain TXT is ideal, provided the converter can extract text from the binary database fields.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert DTO file to , you can use Ditto or similar software from the "Clipboard History Database" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to DTO, try Ditto or another comparable tool in the "Clipboard History Database" category.



The DTO 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 DTO converter.