HHC Converter

Extract text from HHC files


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

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

Convert HHC to another file type

To convert your HHC file to another format, you need HTML Help Workshop or other Developer software.

Convert a file to HHC

To convert other file formats to the "Help Project File" file type, you need software like HTML Help Workshop or a similar tool.


About HHC files

The .HHC file format serves as the Table of Contents (TOC) for the legacy Microsoft HTML Help system. These files are essentially text documents containing HTML unordered lists (<ul>) and list items (<li>) interspersed with ActiveX <OBJECT> parameters that define the tree structure, icons, and link targets for a compiled CHM file. While the underlying data is technically HTML, these files are not designed for modern web browsers. They are relics of the Internet Explorer era, often relying on deprecated specific object identifiers that fail to render correctly in Chrome, Firefox, or Edge, leaving you with a blank page or broken list markers. Users frequently encounter these files when attempting to decompile legacy software documentation or reverse-engineer old CHM manuals. Because they are strictly structural components rather than standalone documents, opening them directly provides little value. For practical use, the most effective workflow is converting .HHC to standard HTML or XML to migrate the navigation structure into a modern documentation generator, or to TXT to strip out the proprietary formatting tags for manual editing.

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

Users also converted HCW, HHP and CH_ files.


FAQ

If you want to convert HHC file to SYS, DLL, EXE, DRV, VXD, 386, COM, BAT, CMD, SCR, PIF or LNK, you can use HTML Help Workshop or similar software from the "Help System Table of Contents" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MSI, EXE, REG, MST, LNK, CAB, CAT, DRV, INF, SYS, MSU or DLL files to HHC, try HTML Help Workshop or another comparable tool in the "Help System Table of Contents" category.



The HHC 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 HHC converter.