OR3 Converter

Extract text from OR3 files


Drop or upload your .OR3 file
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How to extract text from your OR3 file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your OR3 file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert OR3 to another file type

To convert your OR3 file to another format, you need Lotus Organizer or other Database software.

Convert a file to OR3

To convert other file formats to the "PIM Data File" file type, you need software like Lotus Organizer or a similar tool.


About OR3 files

The .OR3 file extension represents a personal information management database created by Lotus Organizer 97 (specifically version 3.x). These files were the standard for digital planning in the late 1990s, storing complex relational data including Contacts, Calendar appointments, To-Do lists, and Notepad entries. Because the .OR3 format is a proprietary binary container designed for 16-bit and early 32-bit Windows environments, it is effectively a "black box" to modern software; you cannot simply open it with Microsoft Outlook or Excel. Users typically encounter these files when recovering archived data from old hard drives or backups. To access the data, the file must be opened in the original Lotus Organizer software (often requiring a Virtual Machine on Windows 10/11) and exported to an interchange format. For modern usability, the recommended workflow is to export contact data to CSV or VCF (vCard) and calendar entries to ICS (iCalendar). Once exported, these standard formats can be easily viewed, edited, or converted for use in Google Calendar, Outlook, and mobile devices.

Convert.Guru analyzes your OR3 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

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FAQ

If you want to convert OR3 file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Lotus Organizer or similar software from the "Personal Information Manager Database" 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 OR3, try Lotus Organizer or another comparable tool in the "Personal Information Manager Database" category.



The OR3 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 OR3 converter.