Extract text from JavaServer pages (JSP)
To convert JSP pages to another format, you need Apache Tomcat or other Web software.
To convert other file formats to the "Server-Side Script" file type, you need software like Apache Tomcat or a similar tool.
The .JSP file extension technically belongs to JavaServer Pages (now Jakarta Server Pages), a server-side scripting technology used to create dynamic web pages. Developers write these files using Java code mixed with HTML, which is then processed by Java web containers like Apache Tomcat or Eclipse Jetty.
However, everyday users rarely download actual source code. If you downloaded a .JSP file from a website, it is almost certainly a misnamed file. Web applications use .JSP scripts to generate files dynamically, such as PDF documents, JPG images, or XLSX spreadsheets. If the web server is misconfigured and omits the correct Content-Disposition HTTP header, your web browser will simply save the file using the URL's .JSP extension instead of the actual file format.
This creates a confusing problem. Your operating system does not know how to open the file. If you force it open in a text editor, you will likely see unreadable gibberish because the file contains compiled binary data, not text code. Standard online converters usually fail because they blindly treat the .JSP as a text document and corrupt the output.
The real solution is to uncover the true underlying file format. We inspect the file's internal signature to detect if it is actually a hidden PDF, JPG, or Citrix ICA launch file, allowing you to recover your original data.
Convert.Guru analyzes your JSP file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted JASP, PDF, JPG, JPS, JSPX, JSP 2, ASPX, HTML, JAVA, PNG, GSF, JSF and CRDOWNLOAD files.
If you want to convert JSP file to PDF, JPG, JAVA, HTML, HTM, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP, ASPX, JSPX or PY, you can use Apache Tomcat or similar software from the "Dynamic Web Page Scripting" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RSS, CSS, CGI, SITEMAP, PL, WEBMANIFEST, JSON, JS, XML, HTML, ICO or HTM files to JSP, try Apache Tomcat or another comparable tool in the "Dynamic Web Page Scripting" 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 JSP converter.