ENEX Converter

Extract text from Evernote export files (ENEX)


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

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

Convert ENEX to another file type

To convert ENEX export files to another format, you need Evernote or other Data software.

Convert a file to ENEX

To convert other file formats to the "XML Note Export" file type, you need software like Evernote or a similar tool.


About ENEX files

.ENEX files are XML-based archives generated by Evernote to export notes, metadata, and attachments. While intended for data backup, the format creates significant lock-in. The XML relies on proprietary <en-note> formatting tags and embeds all attachments (such as images, audio, and documents) directly into the code as massive base64-encoded text blocks. This drastically inflates file sizes, making large .ENEX exports prone to crashing standard text editors and highly difficult to parse. Users typically need to convert .ENEX files to MD (Markdown), HTML, or PDF to migrate their data to modern, offline-first note apps like Obsidian or Notion. Standard online converters frequently fail to process .ENEX because they cannot decode the Evernote-specific markup or extract the base64 media blocks correctly. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. convert.guru can parse the underlying XML, inspect the text, and attempt to extract embedded content. If our analysis detects supported underlying data, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

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

Users also converted NOTE-EXPORT, EXPORT NOTE, DOCX, HTML, TXT, CSV, PDF, ZIP, MD, DTA, DVI, XML and JPG files.


FAQ

If you want to convert ENEX file to MARKDOWN, PDF, MD, HTML, TXT, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML or INI, you can use Evernote or similar software from the "Note Export Archive" 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 ENEX, try Evernote or another comparable tool in the "Note Export Archive" category.



The ENEX 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 ENEX converter.