How to extract text from your LPK file
- Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your LPK file.
- You’ll see a preview, if available.
- Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert LPK to another file type
To convert your LPK file to another format, you need ArcGIS Pro or other GIS software.
- LPK to MPG
- LPK to SHP
- LPK to KML
- LPK to KMZ
- LPK to GPX
- LPK to GEOJSON
- LPK to TOPOJSON
- LPK to TIF
- LPK to TIFF
- LPK to ECW
- LPK to SID
- LPK to IMG
Convert a file to LPK
To convert other file formats to the "Map Layer Archive" file type, you need software like ArcGIS Pro or a similar tool.
- LAZ to LPK
- KMZ to LPK
- DTM to LPK
- CSV to LPK
- DEM to LPK
- PRJ to LPK
- LAS to LPK
- GPX to LPK
- DSM to LPK
- SHP to LPK
- DBF to LPK
- KML to LPK
About LPK files
The .LPK extension usually designates an ArcGIS Layer Package, a compressed container developed by Esri to bundle spatial data (vectors, points) with its associated cartography and symbology layers. While efficient for sharing complete maps within the ArcGIS ecosystem, this proprietary encapsulation can be a major source of frustration for users of open-source tools like QGIS or web-based mapping platforms. The data inside is effectively locked away, often requiring an expensive ArcGIS Pro license just to view or extract the underlying geometry. Additionally, a large subset of LPK files are legacy Loki Installers or generic application data packages which are simply renamed ZIP archives. To bypass these constraints, users should convert GIS-based LPK files to Shapefile (.SHP) or GeoJSON for editing, or KML for viewing in Google Earth. For generic archives, converting or renaming to ZIP restores immediate access to the file contents.
Convert.Guru analyzes your LPK file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted LPKX, IPK, LYRX, LDK, ZIP, JSON, LYR, PDF, MP4, TTF, CRDOWNLOAD, KML and SCH files.
The LPK 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 LPK converter.