Extract text from NRL files
To convert your NRL file to another format, you need iManage Work or other System software.
To convert other file formats to the "DMS Reference Link" file type, you need software like iManage Work or a similar tool.
A .NRL file is a proprietary reference shortcut used primarily by the iManage Work (formerly Interwoven WorkSite) document management system. Unlike standard desktop shortcuts, .NRL files contain specific Uniform Resource Name (URN) data and configuration strings that direct the proprietary iManage client to locate a document stored on a central server.
The primary challenge users face is that an .NRL file does not contain the actual document data (such as the text of a contract or the pixels of an image). It is merely a pointer, typically only a few kilobytes in size. Users often encounter these files when a colleague sends a "link" instead of an attachment, or when archiving project folders. Without access to the specific corporate network and the installed iManage DeskSite or FileSite client, these files are effectively useless and will not open.
To retrieve the information inside or debug broken links, you can convert the .NRL file to TXT to view the raw configuration data, server paths, and document numbers. For valid archiving, the original document must be exported from the DMS as a PDF or DOCX, as the .NRL link will break once the server structure changes or access permissions expire.
Convert.Guru analyzes your NRL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted PDF, NRLP, DOCX, XBRL, TXT, ZIP, XLSX, IDML, CRDOWNLOAD, SDOCX, PAK, RFA and EXE files.
If you want to convert NRL file to PDF, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use iManage Work or similar software from the "Document Management Shortcut" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to NRL, try iManage Work or another comparable tool in the "Document Management Shortcut" category.
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 NRL converter.