Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your QDP file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert QDP to another file type
To convert QDP projects to another format, you need QDA Miner or other Data software.
Convert a file to QDP
To convert other file formats to the "Research Project Container" file type, you need software like QDA Miner or a similar tool.
About QDP files
The .QDP file extension is primarily associated with Qualitative Data Analysis projects created by QDA Miner, a specialized research software developed by Provalis Research. These files act as containers that store a researcher's documents, coding structures, variables, and project settings. Less commonly, .QDP files are used as legacy barcode label design files by Meto Quick Draw, MPQDraft plugin files, or NASA Quick and Dandy Plotter files. The main disadvantage of the .QDP format is its proprietary nature. QDA Miner requires a paid license to operate fully, and users who receive these project files without the software are completely locked out of the structured research data. Standard online converters completely fail to process .QDP files because they do not understand the proprietary schemas hidden inside the container. To effectively convert the research data to open formats like CSV, XLSX, or PDF, you typically need to export it directly from within the original software. However, because the QDA Miner .QDP file is actually based on the standard ZIP architecture, it is possible to extract raw text and assets using standard archive tools. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. convert.guru will inspect the internal structure, detect if it is a ZIP-based QDA Miner project or a legacy barcode file, and help you extract any readable embedded formats.
Convert.Guru analyzes your QDP file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert QDP file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use QDA Miner or similar software from the "Qualitative Data Analysis Storage" 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 QDP, try QDA Miner or another comparable tool in the "Qualitative Data Analysis Storage" category.
The QDP 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 QDP converter.