Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your HS file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert HS to another file type
To convert HS Haskell files to another format, you need GHC & Han's Laser or other Developer software.
Convert a file to HS
To convert other file formats to the "Source Code File" file type, you need software like GHC & Han's Laser or a similar tool.
About HS files
The .HS file extension serves multiple distinct purposes, most notably as Haskell Source Code for the Haskell programming language. In industrial settings, it is also used as a Laser Marking Design file by Han's Laser Software or as a historical process data log by Wonderware InTouch HMI. Haskell files are plain text scripts containing functional programming code, requiring specific compilers like the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) to execute. Conversely, Han's Laser and Wonderware files are closed, proprietary formats. Han's Laser files use UTF-16 (LE) encoding to store vector designs, while Wonderware logs are often GZIP compressed data. Users frequently struggle with these industrial files because they require expensive, specialized software to open and are completely unsupported by standard web browsers. Standard online converters fail to process them because the underlying data structures are heavily guarded secrets. Direct conversion of industrial .HS files to standard formats like DXF or CSV usually requires the original software, otherwise structural vector data is lost. For Haskell code, you can easily convert the file to TXT or PDF to share the script without requiring the recipient to have a code editor. This is why this file format can be difficult to open or convert: often only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your HS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert HS file to HRC, HTS, S, JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP or RB, you can use GHC & Han's Laser or similar software from the "Source Code & Industrial Data" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to HS, try GHC & Han's Laser or another comparable tool in the "Source Code & Industrial Data" category.
The HS 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 HS converter.