Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your LDIF file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert LDIF to another file type
To convert your LDIF file to another format, you need OpenLDAP or other Data software.
Convert a file to LDIF
To convert other file formats to the "Directory Interchange Format" file type, you need software like OpenLDAP or a similar tool.
About LDIF files
The .LDIF (LDAP Data Interchange Format) is a standard plain-text file used to represent directory information for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers. While critical for IT administrators using tools like OpenLDAP or Microsoft Active Directory to batch modify or migrate user data, the raw format is unfriendly for general use. The files rely on a strict hierarchical syntax defined by the IETF (RFC 2849), where data is often Base64 encoded, making it unreadable to humans and incompatible with standard office software. Users frequently encounter these files when exporting address books from email clients like Mozilla Thunderbird but find they cannot open them in Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Excel directly. To make the data usable, it is best to convert .LDIF to CSV for viewing in spreadsheets, or to VCF (vCard) for importing contacts into mobile devices and webmail services.
Convert.Guru analyzes your LDIF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert LDIF file to CSV, JSON, XML, VCF, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use OpenLDAP or similar software from the "Directory Data Exchange" 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 LDIF, try OpenLDAP or another comparable tool in the "Directory Data Exchange" category.
The LDIF 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 LDIF converter.