MDBHTML Converter

Extract text from Access HTML files (MDBHTML)


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

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

Convert MDBHTML to another file type

To convert MDBHTML HTML files to another format, you need Microsoft Access or other Web software.

Convert a file to MDBHTML

To convert other file formats to the "Access HTML Export" file type, you need software like Microsoft Access or a similar tool.


About MDBHTML files

The .mdbhtml file is a static web page generated by Microsoft Access to display exported database tables, queries, or reports. While useful for sharing a snapshot of data, it has major disadvantages. The file is disconnected from the live database, meaning updates in Access will not reflect in the HTML. Furthermore, the HTML code generated by Microsoft software is notoriously bloated with proprietary XML and CSS tags (MSO tags) designed to mimic exact print layouts. This bloat makes the file unnecessarily large and difficult to edit or parse with standard web development tools. Converting this file is often necessary to recover the raw data. The best target formats are CSV or XLSX. Converting to these spreadsheet formats allows you to strip away the heavy visual formatting and import the data back into a relational database.

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


FAQ

If you want to convert MDBHTML file to , you can use Microsoft Access or similar software from the "Database Web Export" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to MDBHTML, try Microsoft Access or another comparable tool in the "Database Web Export" category.



The MDBHTML 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 MDBHTML converter.