Extract text from PROJECT files
To convert your PROJECT file to another format, you need Eclipse IDE or other Developer software.
To convert other file formats to the "Project Settings File" file type, you need software like Eclipse IDE or a similar tool.
The .project extension acts as a generic container or configuration marker for various Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), most notably Eclipse and CODESYS.
For Eclipse users, this file is a lightweight XML document located at the root of a project folder. It does not contain your source code (like .JAVA or .CPP files) but rather defines the project's name, build orders, and linked resources. Users often struggle when they try to open this file directly, expecting to see their application run, only to find raw XML text. The practical solution for archiving or documentation is converting this metadata to PDF, JSON, or standard TXT to preserve the configuration settings without needing the IDE.
In the industrial automation sector, a .project file serves as the primary development file for CODESYS. Unlike the Eclipse variant, this can be a complex binary or ZIP-based container holding PLC programming logic, visualization screens, and hardware configurations. These files are strictly proprietary; opening them without the specific version of the CODESYS Development System is virtually impossible. For these users, the conversion goal is typically extracting the internal logic or documenting the setup, which often requires exporting to PDF documentation or PLCopen XML from within the software itself.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PROJECT file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted MPP, LTPROJ, PROJ, AEP, PRPROJ, ZIP, JRXML, XML, PDF, XLSX, PNG, ADT and H files.
If you want to convert PROJECT file to PDF, PPT, EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP or MAP, you can use Eclipse IDE or similar software from the "IDE Project Configuration" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to PROJECT, try Eclipse IDE or another comparable tool in the "IDE Project Configuration" 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 PROJECT converter.