Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your KPF file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert KPF to another file type
To convert KPF projects to another format, you need Amazon Kindle Create or other E-Book software.
Convert a file to KPF
To convert other file formats to the "Kindle Publishing Container" file type, you need software like Amazon Kindle Create or a similar tool.
About KPF files
.KPF files are proprietary project files used primarily by Amazon Kindle Create to format eBooks for publishing on Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). Under the hood, they are standard ZIP archives containing manuscript text, images, and formatting metadata. They are typically opened using Amazon Kindle Create or the Kindle Previewer. The primary disadvantage of the .KPF format is its closed ecosystem. It is designed solely for Amazon's platform and cannot be directly uploaded to competitors like Apple Books or Kobo. You cannot natively open it in web browsers or standard eBook readers like Calibre without extracting its contents first. Furthermore, editing a published .KPF file without the original source document is frustrating, as it locks your manuscript into Amazon's proprietary wrapper. Users often need to convert .KPF files to EPUB, PDF, or DOCX to distribute their books outside of Amazon or to recover the raw text. While converting to EPUB preserves most eBook formatting, converting to PDF will lock in page sizes and remove dynamic text reflow capabilities. This file format is difficult to open or convert because it is a closed container heavily reliant on Amazon's internal DRM and rendering engines. Emphasize that often only the original software can properly read or export the structured data. Because our analysis detects the supported underlying ZIP structure, viewing the internal files or extracting the embedded text may still be possible even without Amazon software.
Convert.Guru analyzes your KPF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert KPF file to PDF, EPUB, DOCX, KCB, KFX, MOBI, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML or TOML, you can use Amazon Kindle Create or similar software from the "Kindle eBook Formatting Project" 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 KPF, try Amazon Kindle Create or another comparable tool in the "Kindle eBook Formatting Project" category.
The KPF 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 KPF converter.