INX Converter

Extract text from INX files

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How to extract text from your INX file

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

Convert INX to another file type

To convert your INX file to another format, you need Adobe InDesign or other Page Layout software.

Convert a file to INX

To convert other file formats to the "Legacy Interchange Format" file type, you need software like Adobe InDesign or a similar tool.

About INX files

The .inx extension primarily represents the InDesign Interchange format, a legacy XML-based export generated by Adobe InDesign (specifically CS2 through CS4). Designers originally used this format to save files down to older versions of the Creative Suite, bypassing the proprietary lock-in of the binary INDD format. However, modern Creative Cloud versions have largely replaced .inx with IDML, making these older files difficult to open without legacy software or specific conversion workflows. A standard .inx file contains layout definitions, text styles, and image links, but because it is an XML representation, it is fragile; missing fonts or broken asset links can render the conversion useless.

Alternatively, your file might be a compiled installation script used by Revenera InstallShield (formerly Flexera). These are binary files used during software setup and are generally not meant for user editing. Another common variant is the Inkscape Extension Descriptor, which is a simple XML text file defining parameters for vector graphics extensions.

To handle these files without hunting for twenty-year-old software:

For InDesign Files: Convert to PDF for immediate viewing or printing. If you need to edit the layout, converting to IDML (InDesign Markup Language) is the standard bridge to modern InDesign CC versions.
For InstallShield/Scripts: Convert to TXT to attempt to read the strings, though binary data will remain illegible.
For Inkscape: These are already text-readable; simply open with a text editor or convert to TXT to view the XML structure.

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

Users also converted PDF, EXE, ZIP, KMZ, INP, PMD, IDML and INDD files.

FAQ

If you want to convert INX file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Adobe InDesign or similar software from the "InDesign Interchange Document" 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 INX, try Adobe InDesign or another comparable tool in the "InDesign Interchange Document" category.

The INX 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 INX converter.