Extract text from IVD files
To convert your IVD file to another format, you need Itron Field Collection System or other Data software.
To convert other file formats to the "Data Log File" file type, you need software like Itron Field Collection System or a similar tool.
The .IVD extension is a classic example of a "chameleon" filename used by disparate industries to store structured data. Most commonly (approx. 31%), it represents French Census or Tax Data files associated with INSEE or the French tax administration (impots.gouv.fr). These are often rigid, fixed-width text or proprietary binary datasets used for demographic statistics, making them unreadable in standard text editors like Microsoft Notepad.
In engineering and industrial contexts, .IVD files serve as data logs. They may be Vehicle CAN bus logs generated by Bosch data loggers (15%) or Meter Interval Data from Itron Field Collection Systems (13%). These files contain critical time-series telemetry but are frequently locked inside expensive, vendor-specific software suites required to interpret the binary stream. A smaller subset of users might encounter .IVD files as Vedabase content containers - essentially renamed SQLite databases used by the Bhaktivedanta Archives - or I-V curve measurements from Keithley instruments.
The main limitation for .IVD files is their opacity; without the specific originating software (which often requires a license or is legacy software), the data is inaccessible. Users typically need to convert these proprietary containers into open, human-readable formats like CSV or XLSX (Excel) for analysis, or PDF for archiving static reports. While specialized parsers exist for the engineering formats, a generic database or text extraction approach is often the fastest way to recover the raw data.
Convert.Guru analyzes your IVD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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If you want to convert IVD file to SYS, DLL, EXE, DRV, VXD, 386, COM, BAT, CMD, SCR, PIF or LNK, you can use Itron Field Collection System or similar software from the "Structured Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MSI, EXE, REG, MST, LNK, CAB, CAT, DRV, INF, SYS, MSU or DLL files to IVD, try Itron Field Collection System or another comparable tool in the "Structured Data Storage" category.
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 IVD converter.