HMXZ Converter

Extract text from HMXZ files


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

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

Convert HMXZ to another file type

To convert your HMXZ file to another format, you need Help & Manual or other Text software.

Convert a file to HMXZ

To convert other file formats to the "Documentation Project" file type, you need software like Help & Manual or a similar tool.


About HMXZ files

A .HMXZ file is a compressed project archive created by Help & Manual, a professional Help Authoring Tool (HAT) used by technical writers to generate software documentation. It acts as the single-file source code for a manual, containing all text topics, XML configuration data, and embedded images in a ZIP-compressed container.

Because .HMXZ files are proprietary project sources, they cannot be opened by standard document viewers like Microsoft Word or Adobe Reader. They are strictly designed for the authoring phase, not for end-user distribution. To share the manual with users or clients, the project must be compiled (converted) into a standard delivery format. Common conversion targets include PDF for printing and archiving, CHM for Windows desktop application help, WebHelp (HTML) for online browser access, and DOCX for proofreading or editing in Microsoft Word.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert HMXZ file to TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, PAGES, TEX, LATEX, MD, MARKDOWN, LOG or NFO, you can use Help & Manual or similar software from the "Help Authoring Project" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, DOCX, JPG, TXT, NOTE or RTF files to HMXZ, try Help & Manual or another comparable tool in the "Help Authoring Project" category.



The HMXZ 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 HMXZ converter.