Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PEP file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert PEP to another file type
To convert your PEP file to another format, you need IBM FileNet or other Data software.
Convert a file to PEP
To convert other file formats to the "Workflow Process Definition" file type, you need software like IBM FileNet or a similar tool.
About PEP files
A .pep file acts as a chameleon in the digital world, serving three distinct, high-friction purposes that often confuse users. Most commonly, it is a Process Engine Process definition used by IBM FileNet to map out enterprise workflows. These files are typically locked in a native, proprietary format that cannot be opened by standard viewers, forcing users to convert them to XPDL (Business Process Definition) or PDF for wider accessibility and archiving.
In the scientific community, a .pep file represents Peptide or Predictions for Entire Proteomes data, often structured as YAML or CSV text. Researchers frequently need to convert these datasets into FASTA, JSON, or CSV formats to analyze sequences in Python or R without relying on the specific PEPkit toolkit.
Finally, digital artists encounter .pep files as legacy Pose Studio data used by Celsys. Since the original Pose Studio software is deprecated, users struggle to import these poses into modern tools like Clip Studio Paint. The best workaround is converting the pose data to FBX or OBJ using Blender add-ons, allowing the 3D assets to be used in contemporary creative workflows.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PEP file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert PEP file to EP, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use IBM FileNet or similar software from the "Workflow & Process Definition" 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 PEP, try IBM FileNet or another comparable tool in the "Workflow & Process Definition" category.
The PEP 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 PEP converter.