Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PAP file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert PAP to another file type
To convert PAP Flowcharts to another format, you need Papyrus Autor or other Data software.
Convert a file to PAP
To convert other file formats to the "Diagram & Document Files" file type, you need software like Papyrus Autor or a similar tool.
About PAP files
A .pap file is most commonly a PAP-Designer Flowchart Diagram or a Papyrus Autor Word Processor Document. The PAP-Designer variant stores visual flowchart logic in an open XML format. While readable in a standard text editor, it cannot be visually rendered without the original German software. The Papyrus Autor variant is a proprietary document format favored by novelists and writers. Both formats suffer from strict ecosystem lock-in. Papyrus documents require expensive paid software to open natively and are completely ignored by standard word processors like Microsoft Word or Google Docs. PAP-Designer flowcharts cannot be natively imported into modern diagramming tools like Visio or Lucidchart. Additionally, .pap is a heavily fragmented extension - it is also used for Havok 3D animation data, Black Desert Online game patches, and Pando peer-to-peer download packages (which are actually just disguised RAR archives). Because standard online converters lack the proprietary rendering engines required for Papyrus documents or the specific logic schema for PAP-Designer, direct conversion often fails. To circumvent this, authors should export to DOCX, RTF, or PDF from within Papyrus, while developers should export flowcharts as SVG or PNG. Since many .pap files are underlying XML, JSON, or RAR archives, our analysis engine can often extract the raw text, code, or archived contents even when the proprietary software is unavailable.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PAP file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert PAP file to , you can use Papyrus Autor or similar software from the "Flowchart or Text Document" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to PAP, try Papyrus Autor or another comparable tool in the "Flowchart or Text Document" category.
The PAP 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 PAP converter.