Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SPJ file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert SPJ to another file type
To convert SPJ projects to another format, you need NCH PhotoStage or other Data software.
Convert a file to SPJ
To convert other file formats to the "Project Configuration File" file type, you need software like NCH PhotoStage or a similar tool.
About SPJ files
The .SPJ file extension is primarily used as a Slideshow Project File by applications like AquaSoft SlideShow and NCH PhotoStage. It is also heavily utilized by Trimble for Surveying Project Job files, and by the discontinued Microsoft Image Composite Editor for panorama stitching projects. Users typically want to convert .SPJ files into universally playable video formats like .MP4 or .AVI. The major disadvantage of the .SPJ format is that it is fundamentally a proprietary configuration file. It does not contain actual video, audio, or high-resolution image data; it merely stores file paths on your local hard drive, transition timings, and project settings. Sharing an .SPJ file with a client or colleague usually results in a broken project, as the file cannot locate the original media assets. Standard online video converters fail to process .SPJ files because there is no media to encode. Rendering the project into a final target format like .MP4, .MOV, or .JPG almost always requires the original host software. This is a closed, proprietary format that forces you to stay within the original software ecosystem. Since many .SPJ files are structured as standard XML documents or ZIP archives under the hood, our analysis can detect the supported underlying format, allowing you to inspect the raw text instructions, recover file paths, and potentially extract embedded data.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SPJ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert SPJ file to MP4, CSV, JPG, PDF, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TIF, WEBP, ICO or CUR, you can use NCH PhotoStage or similar software from the "Slideshow Project Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RAW, PNG, AI, NEF, PSB, DNG, SVG, GIF, EPS, JPG, ARW or PDF files to SPJ, try NCH PhotoStage or another comparable tool in the "Slideshow Project Data Storage" category.
The SPJ 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 SPJ converter.