Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ESX file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert ESX to another file type
To convert your ESX file to another format, you need Ekahau AI Pro or other Data software.
Convert a file to ESX
To convert other file formats to the "Network Analysis Project" file type, you need software like Ekahau AI Pro or a similar tool.
About ESX files
The .ESX file extension most frequently represents a Wi-Fi Site Survey Project created by Ekahau AI Pro, the industry standard for designing and maintaining wireless networks. These files act as containers (internally structured as ZIP archives) that hold floor plan images, signal strength heatmaps, access point configurations, and survey paths.
While essential for network engineers, .ESX files pose significant accessibility challenges. They require expensive, specialized licensing to open natively, making it difficult to share raw data with clients or stakeholders who do not possess the software. Users often need to convert these projects into portable formats like PDF for finalized survey reports, DOCX for editable documentation, or CSV to extract raw access point data for inventory management.
A secondary, less common use of the extension is for Korg Electribe SX (ESX-1) sampler pattern files. These legacy music production files store patterns, songs, and global settings. Musicians typically need to convert these to back up data from aging hardware or to migrate sample data to modern DAWs via audio formats like WAV.
Whether dealing with network maps or musical patterns, the primary goal is often liberating the proprietary data for viewing, reporting, or archiving without hardware/software lock-in.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ESX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert ESX file to PDF, XML, QB, FML, CSV, JSON, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG or CONF, you can use Ekahau AI Pro or similar software from the "Wi-Fi Site Survey Project" 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 ESX, try Ekahau AI Pro or another comparable tool in the "Wi-Fi Site Survey Project" category.
The ESX 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 ESX converter.