IBA Converter

Extract text from IBA files


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

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

Convert IBA to another file type

To convert your IBA file to another format, you need iBooks Author or other E-Book software.

  • IBA to PDF
  • IBA to DWG
  • IBA to DXF
  • IBA to DGN
  • IBA to RVT
  • IBA to RFA
  • IBA to SKP
  • IBA to 3DM
  • IBA to STEP
  • IBA to IGES
  • IBA to SAT
  • IBA to X_T

Convert a file to IBA

To convert other file formats to the "Discontinued Project File" file type, you need software like iBooks Author or a similar tool.

  • SLDASM to IBA
  • DGN to IBA
  • PRT to IBA
  • IAM to IBA
  • X_B to IBA
  • CATPRODUCT to IBA
  • SLDPRT to IBA
  • RVT to IBA
  • ASM to IBA
  • DWG to IBA
  • CATPART to IBA
  • DXF to IBA

About IBA files

The .IBA file extension identifies a proprietary e-book project created with iBooks Author, an application discontinued by Apple in 2020. These files were specifically designed for crafting interactive textbooks for the iPad, containing rich media, HTML5 widgets, and Keynote presentations within a package structure. While technically based on the ZIP and XML standards (similar to EPUB), .IBA files are notoriously difficult to work with outside the Apple ecosystem. They are essentially locked source files; you cannot open them on Windows, Android, or standard e-reader hardware like a Kindle. Even on macOS, since the removal of iBooks Author, users must rely on importing these files into Apple Pages, often resulting in broken formatting or lost interactivity.

For preservation and accessibility, users urgently need to convert .IBA files to PDF for static viewing or standard EPUB for broad compatibility. If your goal is simply to recover the videos or images locked inside, treating the file as a ZIP archive allows for raw asset extraction.

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

Users also converted DAT, DXF, PDF, ZIP, ML, GO and KV files.



The IBA 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 IBA converter.