NGS Converter

Extract text from NGS files


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

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

Convert NGS to another file type

To convert your NGS file to another format, you need Melco DesignShop or other Vector Image software.

  • NGS to DST
  • NGS to CSV
  • NGS to JSON
  • NGS to XML
  • NGS to YAML
  • NGS to YML
  • NGS to TOML
  • NGS to INI
  • NGS to CFG
  • NGS to CONF
  • NGS to DAT
  • NGS to DB

Convert a file to NGS

To convert other file formats to the "Embroidery Design File" file type, you need software like Melco DesignShop or a similar tool.

  • DBF to NGS
  • XML to NGS
  • SQLITE to NGS
  • XLSX to NGS
  • SQL to NGS
  • TSV to NGS
  • ACCDB to NGS
  • YAML to NGS
  • MDB to NGS
  • CSV to NGS
  • ODS to NGS
  • JSON to NGS

About NGS files

The .NGS file extension represents three distinct proprietary formats, creating significant compatibility challenges for users.

  1. Embroidery Design (Most Common): These are vector-based stitch files created by Melco DesignShop or Wilcom EmbroideryStudio. They use the Microsoft Compound file structure to store stitch coordinates, thread colors, and machine commands. The main problem is that most consumer embroidery machines (like Brother or Janome) cannot read .NGS files directly. To stitch these designs, you must convert them to DST (Tajima) or PES (Brother) formats.
  2. Spectroscopy Data: Generated by Thermo Fisher Scientific OMNIC software, these files contain Raman spectral data. They are strictly for scientific analysis and cannot be opened in Microsoft Excel without conversion to CSV or SPC (Galactic Spc).
  3. Game Video: Used by the NScripter Game Engine (famous for Steins;Gate), these are encrypted video containers. Standard media players like VLC often fail to play them, requiring conversion to MP4 for viewing.

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

Users also converted DST, FASTQ, PNG, EMB, PDF, JPG, CSV, JPEG, ZIP, RPT, SLDDRW, TMP and BMC files.



The NGS 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 NGS converter.