KCT Converter

Extract text from Keyman customization files (KCT)


Drop or upload your .KCT file
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How to extract text from your KCT file

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

Convert KCT to another file type

To convert KCT customization files to another format, you need Keyman Developer or other Developer software.

Convert a file to KCT

To convert other file formats to the "Keyboard Configuration File" file type, you need software like Keyman Developer or a similar tool.


About KCT files

The .KCT file is a Keyman Developer Customization Source file. Developers use it to configure branding, custom interfaces, and installer settings for specialized keyboard layouts. The primary software used to open and edit these files is Keyman Developer, an open-source tool currently maintained by SIL International (formerly Tavultesoft). For the average user, the .KCT format is completely unusable. It is a proprietary project file that requires a dedicated developer environment. You cannot install a .KCT file on your phone or computer to start typing in a new language. The file must first be compiled into a deployable package. If you need to review the code or migrate the configuration, you should convert or export the .KCT data to standard text formats like TXT, XML, or JSON. Converting to plain text makes the data readable across any platform, but you will lose the ability to compile the keyboard directly without rebuilding the project. Standard online converters fail to process .KCT files because they lack the proprietary Keyman compiler logic required to read the project structure. Only the original software can properly export the working data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying text format, viewing or text extraction is still easily possible.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert KCT file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Keyman Developer or similar software from the "Keyboard Customization Source File" 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 KCT, try Keyman Developer or another comparable tool in the "Keyboard Customization Source File" category.



The KCT 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 KCT converter.