QBI Converter

Extract text from QBI files


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

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

Convert QBI to another file type

To convert your QBI file to another format, you need Intuit QuickBooks or other Backup software.

Convert a file to QBI

To convert other file formats to the "Accounting Data File" file type, you need software like Intuit QuickBooks or a similar tool.


About QBI files

The .QBI file extension is primarily a proprietary data format used by Intuit QuickBooks, widely recognized as a QuickBooks Backup Image or company file snapshot. Unlike the standard QBW (working file) or QBB (standard backup), the .QBI often serves as a specialized system image or a container for specific transaction sets, such as invoice data.

A key limitation of .QBI files is their "black box" nature. They are essentially locked databases that require the specific version of QuickBooks that created them to open or restore the data. Users run into issues when trying to migrate these legacy files to QuickBooks Online or when attempting to view the data without an active software subscription. Because they are not text-based, they cannot be opened in standard editors or Microsoft Excel.

For most users, the goal is data extraction. To edit the financial data, the best workflow is restoring the file within QuickBooks and exporting to CSV or XLSX (Excel). For long-term archiving or auditing without maintaining expensive software licenses, converting the report data to PDF is the industry standard.

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

Users also converted QBM, QBB and IIF files.


FAQ

If you want to convert QBI file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Intuit QuickBooks or similar software from the "Financial Data Backup" 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 QBI, try Intuit QuickBooks or another comparable tool in the "Financial Data Backup" category.



The QBI 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 QBI converter.