PIP Converter

Extract text from PIP files

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How to extract text from your PIP file

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

Convert PIP to another file type

To convert your PIP file to another format, you need Microsoft Office or other System software.

Convert a file to PIP

To convert other file formats to the "Configuration Package" file type, you need software like Microsoft Office or a similar tool.

About PIP files

A .pip file typically falls into one of two conflicting categories, creating immediate confusion for users. The most common variant is a Microsoft Office Installation Package or Personalized Settings File, a legacy artifact used by older versions of Microsoft Office (2000/XP/2003) to store menu configurations, toolbars, and user-specific installation data. These files are notoriously opaque; they are proprietary binary blobs that modern software - including newer Office suites - cannot natively open or convert. Users often encounter them when migrating old system backups, only to find they contain effectively dead data.

The second, more actionable variant is a Petrel Plug-in Package used by SLB Petrel, a high-end platform for geophysics and exploration. While these files appear specialized, they are simply standard ZIP archives with a changed extension. A major friction point is that the operating system lacks the file association to treating them as folders.

Conversion Recommendations:

For Petrel Files: The most pragmatic approach is to rename the extension from .pip to zip. This allows immediate access to the internal XML manifests and DLLs using 7-Zip or Windows Explorer.
For Microsoft Files: Direct conversion is rarely possible due to proprietary encoding. However, if the file acts as an installer archive, treating it as a CAB or ZIP may sometimes allow extraction of constituent files. For archiving, simply encapsulating it in a standard ZIP is the safest bet to preserve the binary integrity without needing the original obsolete software.

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

Users also converted JPG, PLP, HPGL, MPP, PPTX, PDF, ZIP, DIC, ASD and DOC files.

FAQ

If you want to convert PIP file to INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV, PROPERTIES or RC, you can use Microsoft Office or similar software from the "Application Settings & Plugins" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to PIP, try Microsoft Office or another comparable tool in the "Application Settings & Plugins" category.

The PIP 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 PIP converter.