PSID Converter

Extract text from PostScript image files (PSID)


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

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

Convert PSID to another file type

To convert PSID images to another format, you need Adobe Illustrator or other Vector Image software.

Convert a file to PSID

To convert other file formats to the "PostScript Data File" file type, you need software like Adobe Illustrator or a similar tool.


About PSID files

The .psid file is a PostScript Image Data file. Developed by Adobe Systems, it contains vector graphics, text, and layout instructions saved in a printer-readable ASCII format. This format is primarily used to send complex graphical data directly to PostScript printers without needing the original design software. To open or edit a .psid file natively, you generally need Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, or a dedicated PostScript utility. Because it relies heavily on the PostScript language, standard image viewers or web browsers cannot render the file. Sharing a .psid file with clients or colleagues is usually a bad idea. Unless they have expensive Adobe subscriptions or a high-end PostScript printer, they will see an error when trying to open it. Furthermore, dealing with raw print data can be clunky, and the files are practically useless for web or screen display. Converting the file is the best workaround. The ideal target is a pdf, which perfectly preserves the vector graphics and text while being universally readable. Alternatively, you can convert it to an svg for web use or rasterize it into a jpg or png if you only need a flat image. Because .psid is a specialized print format, standard online converters often fail to process it. Even if the visual data is locked behind Adobe's proprietary encoding, our analysis can often detect an embedded format, allowing viewing or conversion to help you recover your content.

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

Users also converted KGP and BAR files.


FAQ

If you want to convert PSID file to BAR, SVG, AI, EPS, PDF, JPG, CDR, WMF, EMF, SWF, FLA or XFL, you can use Adobe Illustrator or similar software from the "Printer-ready vector graphics" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert AFPUB, EPS, FIG, VSD, SKETCH, VDX, AFPHOTO, PDF, AFDESIGN, SVG, VSDX or AI files to PSID, try Adobe Illustrator or another comparable tool in the "Printer-ready vector graphics" category.



The PSID 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 PSID converter.