Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your LPD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert LPD to another file type
To convert LPD Labels to another format, you need Avery LabelPro or other Data software.
Convert a file to LPD
To convert other file formats to the "Label Design & Data Archive" file type, you need software like Avery LabelPro or a similar tool.
About LPD files
An .LPD file is most frequently an Avery LabelPro design file or a Linked Paleo Data (LiPD) archive. Avery uses this format to store custom label layouts, including text, barcodes, and graphical elements. The Linked Paleo Data standard uses the .LPD extension for zipped archives containing paleoclimatology metadata and datasets. Other common uses include SATO label printing data, HP printer licenses, and IBM Lombardi XML process definitions.
The main disadvantage of the .LPD format is its severe fragmentation. Because multiple, completely unrelated software programs use the exact same file extension, standard operating systems almost always fail to open it. If it is an Avery label, the original LabelPro software is legacy and obsolete, making it incredibly difficult to access old mailing lists or label designs on modern computers. If it is a LiPD file, you need specialized scientific data frameworks to properly read the climate records.
Users typically need to convert .LPD files to standard formats like PDF or JPG for printing and sharing labels, or to CSV or JSON for extracting paleoclimatology data. Standard online converters almost always fail to process .LPD files because they cannot parse the underlying proprietary binary blobs or specialized XML structures. Even if the proprietary formatting is locked by obsolete software, our analysis engine can often extract embedded images or plain text data to help you recover your content.
Convert.Guru analyzes your LPD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert LPD file to MLD, LPS, GPD, SYS, DLL, EXE, DRV, VXD, 386, COM, BAT or CMD, you can use Avery LabelPro or similar software from the "Label Design & Scientific Data" 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 LPD, try Avery LabelPro or another comparable tool in the "Label Design & Scientific Data" category.
The LPD 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 LPD converter.