MHP Converter

Extract text from Greetings and 3D models (MHP)


Drop or upload your .MHP file

How to extract text from your MHP file

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

Convert MHP to another file type

To convert MHP Projects to another format, you need Microsoft Picture It! or other Page Layout software.

Convert a file to MHP

To convert other file formats to the "Creative Project File" file type, you need software like Microsoft Picture It! or a similar tool.


About MHP files

The .MHP extension represents a collision of two distinct eras: legacy desktop publishing and modern 3D modeling. Most commonly, you are dealing with a Microsoft Greetings or Picture It! project file. These proprietary containers hold layers, vector shapes, and text for greeting cards, often created by software that has been discontinued for over a decade. The key problem here is the "locked box" problem: current versions of Windows and standard image viewers cannot render these files, trapping your nostalgic projects inside a binary format. Users typically convert these to JPG for viewing or PDF for archiving.

Alternatively, if you are a 3D artist, this is a MakeHuman project file storing the parametric data (age, gender, ethnicity sliders) of a character model. These files are recipes, not finished meshes. You cannot drag an .MHP directly into game engines like Unity or Unreal Engine. To use these characters, you typically need to open them in the original software and export them to widely supported exchange formats like OBJ or FBX.

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

Users also converted MHT, PDF, MSG, EML and OFT files.


FAQ

If you want to convert MHP file to , you can use Microsoft Picture It! or similar software from the "Multimedia Project & 3D Model" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to MHP, try Microsoft Picture It! or another comparable tool in the "Multimedia Project & 3D Model" category.



The MHP 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 MHP converter.