Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your NTD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert NTD to another file type
To convert NTD notes to another format, you need ColorNote or other Data software.
Convert a file to NTD
To convert other file formats to the "Proprietary Application Data" file type, you need software like ColorNote or a similar tool.
About NTD files
The .ntd file extension is highly fragmented and represents several completely different data types. Its most common use is as a backup or note storage file for the ColorNote app on Android. Other common applications include proprietary image formats generated by Xerox WorkCentre scanners (often embedding TIFF data), screen captures from Yokogawa oscilloscopes (embedding PNG data), and historical financial trading data for the NinjaTrader platform.
The primary disadvantage of .ntd files is their severe lack of interoperability. A ColorNote backup cannot be easily opened on a PC without specific workarounds. Xerox scanner .ntd files often require outdated Watermark Client software to view, creating massive roadblocks in modern document workflows. Meanwhile, trading data from NinjaTrader is completely locked into their proprietary ecosystem.
Converting .ntd notes to TXT or PDF is crucial for sharing and archiving your data safely. For the image variants, extracting the files to standard TIFF or PNG formats is necessary to prevent vendor lock-in and ensure the images open in standard web browsers and image viewers.
Because the .ntd extension is shared among radically different, closed, and proprietary systems, standard online converters usually fail to process it. Since many .ntd files contain standard data like zlib-compressed text or embedded PNG and TIFF images, our analysis tools can often extract the internal content even if the main format wrapper remains unsupported.
Convert.Guru analyzes your NTD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert NTD file to , you can use ColorNote or similar software from the "App Data & Image Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to NTD, try ColorNote or another comparable tool in the "App Data & Image Storage" category.
The NTD 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 NTD converter.