SX Converter

Extract text from SX files


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

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

Convert SX to another file type

To convert your SX file to another format, you need Statistix or other Data software.

  • SX to CSS
  • SX to INDD
  • SX to QXP
  • SX to PUB
  • SX to PMD
  • SX to PM6
  • SX to PM7
  • SX to PM8
  • SX to PM9
  • SX to PM10
  • SX to PM11
  • SX to OMP

Convert a file to SX

To convert other file formats to the "Statistical Analysis Data" file type, you need software like Statistix or a similar tool.

  • MDI to SX
  • PUB to SX
  • PDP to SX
  • PM4 to SX
  • P65 to SX
  • COMIC to SX
  • WEBTEMPLATE to SX
  • PMD to SX
  • SPUB to SX
  • INDD to SX
  • PM5 to SX
  • QXP to SX

About SX files

The .SX file extension is a "container of confusion" shared by at least three completely unrelated technical ecosystems, making it difficult to identify without context.

  1. Statistix Data File: Most frequently, this file is a dataset created by Statistix, a specialized statistical analysis program. Unlike standard XLSX files, these are proprietary binary containers. Users often struggle to open them because they require a paid license for the host software, locking valuable research data away from standard tools like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. Converting these to CSV or XLS is essential for broader data accessibility.
  2. Siemens Simaris Project: In electrical engineering, .SX represents a project file for Siemens Simaris Design. These files contain complex electrical network calculations and dimensioning data. They are strictly proprietary; to "convert" them usually means opening the project in Simaris and exporting the layout to PDF or DXF for documentation purposes.
  3. Motorola S-Record: In embedded systems, an .SX file may be a text-based firmware file (also known as S19 or S28) containing hexadecimal instructions for microcontrollers. While these look like gibberish in Notepad, they are critical for programming hardware chips.

Less commonly, gamers may encounter .SX files as compiled scripts for the Avalanche Engine (used in games like Just Cause), which are generally not user-editable.

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

Users also converted XLSX, RELS, BAU, OVX and CSS files.



The SX 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 SX converter.