Extract text from templates or subtitle files (SBT)
To convert SBT files to another format, you need Sage 50 Accounting or other Data software.
To convert other file formats to the "Proprietary Template File" file type, you need software like Sage 50 Accounting or a similar tool.
The .SBT file extension represents multiple completely different proprietary formats. Most frequently, it acts as a Sequence Submission Template used by the NCBI Sequin software for formatting biological sequence data. Another common use is the Sage Business Template found in Sage 50 Accounting, which stores layout templates for financial reports and invoices. Less commonly, it functions as an AutoCAD temporary autosave file, a subtitle format for URUWorks, or a medical report template in Promis TM.
The main disadvantage of .SBT files is their high fragmentation and software dependency. A Sage 50 user cannot open an NCBI Sequin template, and neither can be viewed in standard web browsers or word processors. These proprietary formats lock your data inside specific, often expensive or highly specialized ecosystems. For example, Sage requires active commercial licenses to read layout data, while Sequin relies on legacy structural requirements that modern parsers ignore.
Users often need to extract the underlying text, financial data, or genetic sequences to share with colleagues or import into modern systems. Depending on the exact type of .SBT file, the best conversion targets are usually TXT, XML, or CSV for raw data extraction, and SRT or VTT for subtitles. However, extracting complex financial layouts into a PDF or DOCX may result in formatting loss.
Because .SBT formats are closed and proprietary, standard online converters usually fail to process them. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. However, just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. convert.guru can inspect the file, reveal its exact sub-type by analyzing its header, and display any readable internal text. If our analysis detects a supported embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your SBT file.
Users also converted GRADLE files.
If you want to convert SBT file to GRADLE, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use Sage 50 Accounting or similar software from the "Software and Data Templates" 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 SBT, try Sage 50 Accounting or another comparable tool in the "Software and Data Templates" 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 SBT converter.