HMXZ Converter

Extract text from Help & Manual projects (HMXZ)


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 HMXZ projects to another format, you need Help & Manual or other Compressed software.

Convert a file to HMXZ

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


About HMXZ files

An .HMXZ file is a Compressed Help Project archive used by technical writers to store documentation source code, text, and media assets in a single package. These files are natively created and managed using Help & Manual, a specialized Help Authoring Tool (HAT) developed by EC Software, and can also be interacted with using alternatives like HelpNDoc. End-users usually encounter .HMXZ files by mistake when a developer shares the project source instead of the compiled, readable output. The major disadvantage of this format is that it cannot be natively opened by web browsers, standard document readers, or text editors. It essentially locks your documentation behind paid, specialized software. The best immediate conversion target is a standard ZIP file. Because the .HMXZ format is fundamentally a zipped container, converting or extracting it to ZIP allows you to access the raw XML text files and embedded raster images (like PNG or JPG). Keep in mind that by extracting the raw data, you lose the interactive navigation, search functionality, and formatted styling of the final compiled document. This file format is notoriously difficult to convert into a finished PDF or CHM file because only the original authoring software contains the proprietary compiling engine necessary to stitch the fragmented XML topics back into a cohesive manual. Standard online document converters completely fail to process it. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. convert.guru can bypass the proprietary extension, inspect the underlying ZIP container, and extract internal text or content. If our analysis detects the embedded formats, viewing or recovering your data is still entirely possible.

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 Documentation Project Storage" 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 Documentation Project Storage" 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.