FCDT Converter

Extract text from FormsCentral design templates (FCDT)


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

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

Convert FCDT to another file type

To convert FCDT templates to another format, you need Adobe FormsCentral or other Page Layout software.

Convert a file to FCDT

To convert other file formats to the "Form Design Template" file type, you need software like Adobe FormsCentral or a similar tool.


About FCDT files

The .FCDT file is a FormsCentral Design Template originally used by the now-defunct Adobe FormsCentral service to structure fillable PDF and web forms. Users relied on the FormsCentral application to edit these files before exporting them to PDF. Adobe retired FormsCentral in 2015, making .FCDT files highly problematic today. It is an obsolete, proprietary format that requires discontinued software to open. Modern web browsers and current Adobe Acrobat subscriptions do not natively support it. You must convert these templates to PDF, HTML, or DOCX to restore their usability, though complex validation logic is usually lost. Because this is a closed format, standard online converters fail to process it. Usually, only the original software can properly export the layout. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert FCDT file to INDD, QXP, PUB, PMD, PM6, PM7, PM8, PM9, PM10, PM11, OMP or P65, you can use Adobe FormsCentral or similar software from the "Form Template Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MDI, PUB, PDP, PM4, P65, COMIC, WEBTEMPLATE, PMD, SPUB, INDD, PM5 or QXP files to FCDT, try Adobe FormsCentral or another comparable tool in the "Form Template Storage" category.



The FCDT 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 FCDT converter.