Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your INP file.
You'll see a preview.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert INP to another file type
The converter easily converts your INP file to various formats - free and online. No Word or extra software needed.
Convert a file to INP
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Page Layout formats to INP with high quality output.
About INP files
The .INP extension is a source of confusion because it serves two completely different user bases with opposite technical needs.
1. InPage Urdu Documents (Most Common)
For most general users, an .INP file is a desktop publishing document created by InPage, the standard software for Urdu, Persian, Pashto, and Arabic text. The core challenge is that .INP files use a proprietary binary encoding that is not compatible with Unicode. You cannot open them in Microsoft Word, web browsers, or on mobile devices. If you try to view the raw file, you will see garbled code. To share these files, you must convert them to PDF (for reading) or EPS (for graphic design in Adobe Illustrator).
2. Engineering & Data Inputs (Abaqus, EPANET)
In engineering workflows, .INP stands for "Input." These are text-based ASCII files used to define models for simulation software like Abaqus (Finite Element Analysis) or EPANET (hydraulic modeling). While these files can be opened in simple text editors like Notepad++, they are often huge and complex. Users typically need to convert these into standard CAD formats like STEP or IGES for interoperability, or simply view the raw text to debug simulation parameters.
3. Sony AVCHD Metadata
Owners of Sony camcorders may find .INP files alongside their video clips. Warning: This is not a video file. It contains management metadata (timestamps, folder structure). Converting or deleting this file can corrupt the playlist structure on the camera, though the actual video resides in the MTS file.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your INP file.
If you want to convert INP file to PDF, JPG, XPS, DOCX, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI or CFG, you can use InPage or similar software from the "Urdu Desktop Publishing" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to INP, try InPage or another comparable tool in the "Urdu Desktop Publishing" category.
The INP 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 INP converter.