Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your IFM file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert IFM to another file type
To convert IFM forms to another format, you need Shana Informed Filler or other Data software.
Convert a file to IFM
To convert other file formats to the "Electronic Form Data" file type, you need software like Shana Informed Filler or a similar tool.
About IFM files
The .IFM file extension denotes an Informed Form Data Document, a legacy file type designed to store the data inputs of electronic forms. Primarily used in the 1990s and early 2000s by government organizations, universities, and large corporations, an .IFM file captures only the text strings, checkmarks, and values entered by a user into a specific form template. These files were exclusively created and managed by Shana Informed Filler, an application within a broader suite of enterprise form software eventually acquired by FileNet and later IBM. The system separated the form's visual design (saved as an ITP file) from the user's specific answers (saved as the .IFM file). Today, encountering an .IFM file presents a major archiving and accessibility problem. The format is entirely proprietary, obsolete, and functionally unsupported on modern operating systems. The biggest disadvantage of the .IFM format is its dependency: without the original ITP template, the .IFM file is just a disconnected list of answers without their corresponding questions. Furthermore, maintaining legacy Windows environments just to run a 25-year-old form viewer is an expensive and annoying security risk. To modernize this trapped data, users must convert the .IFM file into open, accessible standards. Extracting the raw text into a CSV or XML file is the best path for database entry and long-term archiving, though you may lose the original formatting. If your goal is visual preservation, converting to a PDF is the optimal target, but doing so natively requires the original template file to reconstruct the visual layout. Because this file format is a closed, proprietary data structure heavily reliant on external template files, standard online converters fail to process it. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the fully formatted data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your IFM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert IFM file to JPG, PDF, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TIF, WEBP, ICO, CUR, PSD or PSB, you can use Shana Informed Filler or similar software from the "Electronic Form Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RAW, PNG, AI, NEF, PSB, DNG, SVG, GIF, EPS, JPG, ARW or PDF files to IFM, try Shana Informed Filler or another comparable tool in the "Electronic Form Data Storage" category.
The IFM 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 IFM converter.