ITA Converter

Extract text from Data and theme files (ITA)


Drop or upload your .ITA file

How to extract text from your ITA file

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

Convert ITA to another file type

To convert ITA files to another format, you need Igor Pro or other Data software.

Convert a file to ITA

To convert other file formats to the "Binary Data & Archives" file type, you need software like Igor Pro or a similar tool.


About ITA files

The .ITA file extension is heavily fragmented and used across completely unrelated software applications. Most commonly, it functions as a proprietary binary data file for WaveMetrics Igor Pro, a scientific data analysis application. It is also used as desktop icon theme packages by the legacy IconTweaker software, as UTF-16 (LE) localization text files in Epic Games Unreal Engine, and as IEEE ATLAS test procedure source files for aircraft technical documentation. Some users even append it to Adobe PDF files to denote an Italian language version.

Because .ITA files lack a single standardized structure, dealing with them is frustrating. Proprietary binary formats like those used by Igor Pro require highly specific, expensive software to read or export. Legacy software like IconTweaker is obsolete, meaning native support is virtually non-existent on modern operating systems. Standard online converters typically fail because they cannot guess which of the many completely different formats a specific .ITA file happens to be.

To make the data usable, you must convert or extract it based on its true internal structure. If the file is an IconTweaker theme, it is actually a compressed ZIP archive in disguise; renaming or converting it allows you to extract the raw image files. If it is an Unreal Engine or ATLAS file, it is standard text that should be converted to TXT or CSV. Just drag and drop your file into convert.guru to see what it is and convert it if supported. Even if the format is closed and proprietary, our tool can identify the file, inspect its internal contents, and show embedded text. If our analysis detects a supported underlying structure like an archive or text encoding, extraction and conversion may still be possible.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert ITA file to ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, LZMA, CAB, ACE, ARJ or LHA, you can use Igor Pro or similar software from the "Scientific Data & Theme Archives" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert XXE, 7Z, Z, PAK, LHA, DEB, UUE, TAR, LZH, ZIP, PKG or RAR files to ITA, try Igor Pro or another comparable tool in the "Scientific Data & Theme Archives" category.



The ITA 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 ITA converter.