Extract text from Data or report files (FRD)
To convert FRD files to another format, you need FastReport or other Data software.
To convert other file formats to the "Multi-Purpose Data File" file type, you need software like FastReport or a similar tool.
The .FRD extension is a notoriously fragmented multi-purpose file format. In the engineering and audio world, it represents Frequency Response Data, a plain-text file storing magnitude and phase data for loudspeakers, often used alongside tools like AFMG EASE or Speakerbench. In enterprise environments, it is typically a report definition or dictionary file generated by the FastReport .NET reporting tool. Gamers will also recognize it as the replay file format for the game War Thunder.
This extreme fragmentation makes handling .FRD files incredibly frustrating. A War Thunder replay is a proprietary binary containing only game engine coordinates, while a FastReport file uses complex XML or compiled layouts. Trying to open these in standard text editors will result in unreadable gibberish. Conversely, audio engineering files are simple text, but their obscure extension prevents them from being natively recognized by spreadsheet software.
For audio data, the best conversion targets are CSV or TXT to allow plotting in Microsoft Excel. For business reports, exporting to PDF is the only reliable way to preserve the layout. Standard online converters almost always fail to process .FRD files because they cannot guess which of the dozens of possible variations you possess. They assume one format and crash when presented with another. Our system bypasses the misleading extension, analyzes the file signature, and extracts text or embedded data wherever technically feasible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your FRD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted FRF, FR3, FDR, FRW, TXT, VTT, PROTO and KMZ files.
If you want to convert FRD file to JPG, PDF, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TIF, WEBP, ICO, CUR, PSD or PSB, you can use FastReport or similar software from the "Frequency Response or Report Data" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RAW, PNG, AI, NEF, PSB, DNG, SVG, GIF, EPS, JPG, ARW or PDF files to FRD, try FastReport or another comparable tool in the "Frequency Response or Report Data" category.
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 FRD converter.