Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your NRL file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert NRL to another file type
To convert NRL shortcuts to another format, you need iManage Work or other System software.
Convert a file to NRL
To convert other file formats to the "Document Link File" file type, you need software like iManage Work or a similar tool.
About NRL files
An .NRL file is an iManage Work document shortcut file. It acts as a pointer to a document stored securely within an iManage Document Management System (DMS), which is predominantly used by law firms and enterprise compliance teams. Opening this file natively requires the iManage client software (formerly known as Autonomy Interwoven or WorkSite) to securely resolve the link and retrieve the file from the corporate server. The biggest challenge with the .NRL format is that it does not contain the actual document data. It is merely a plain text file containing routing information, such as the server address, database name, and internal document ID. If you receive an .NRL file via email and you are outside the sender's network, the file is functionally useless for editing or reading. You cannot use a standard file converter to turn an .NRL directly into a PDF or DOCX because the document content is missing. The best solution is to request the sender to export the document as a PDF or DOCX before sending. However, you can still inspect the shortcut's metadata.
Convert.Guru analyzes your NRL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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 System 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 System Shortcut" category.
The NRL 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 NRL converter.