Extract text from OBD files
To convert your OBD file to another format, you need Microsoft Office or other Data software.
To convert other file formats to the "Compound Document" file type, you need software like Microsoft Office or a similar tool.
The .obd file extension is most historically associated with the Microsoft Office Binder, a legacy utility introduced in Office 95 and discontinued after Office 2000. This proprietary container format functioned as a digital paperclip, bundling multiple documents - such as DOC Word files, XLS Excel spreadsheets, and PPT PowerPoint presentations - into a single compound file. While innovative at the time, this format now presents significant accessibility challenges. Modern versions of Microsoft Office and Windows 10/11 lack native support for opening these binders, effectively locking users out of archived project data.
Because the format is obsolete and unsupported, users often encounter "File not supported" errors when attempting to open old archives. To retrieve the data, the most effective workflow is converting the .obd binder into a PDF for universal viewing or extracting the individual components into modern DOCX and XLSX formats for editing.
In a completely different context, .obd files are generated by Torque Pro, a popular vehicle diagnostic app for Android. These files contain Java serialized data logs of engine performance (OBD2 data). These logs are technically raw data dumps and are not human-readable in standard text editors. To analyze this automotive telemetry in software like Microsoft Excel or visualize routes on Google Earth, users must convert these logs into structured CSV or KML files.
Convert.Guru analyzes your OBD file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted ODB, ODP, ODT, ODS, ODG, XLSX, XLS, PDF, JPG and CSV files.
If you want to convert OBD file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Microsoft Office or similar software from the "Legacy Document Container" 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 OBD, try Microsoft Office or another comparable tool in the "Legacy Document Container" 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 OBD converter.