Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TBX file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert TBX to another file type
To convert TBX Termbase files to another format, you need SDL Trados or other Data software.
Convert a file to TBX
To convert other file formats to the "Terminology Database File" file type, you need software like SDL Trados or a similar tool.
About TBX files
The .TBX file format has two major, completely different uses. Most often, it is a TermBase eXchange file. This is an .XML format standardized by ISO 30042. Translators use it to share glossaries between software like SDL Trados Studio and XTM Cloud. The second major use is the ArcGIS Geoprocessing Toolbox file, a proprietary format used by Esri ArcGIS Pro to store custom geoprocessing tools and spatial models. The disadvantage of the TermBase eXchange format is its dense .XML structure. Humans cannot easily read it without specialized, expensive CAT (Computer-Assisted Translation) software. The ArcGIS toolbox format is even worse for interoperability. It is a closed, proprietary Microsoft Compound file. It requires a costly software license to open and restricts you entirely to the Esri ecosystem. Translators often need to convert terminology .TBX files to standard .CSV or .XLSX spreadsheets to share with clients who do not own translation software. GIS professionals often prefer converting older ArcGIS .TBX files to modern .PYT (Python Toolbox) files for better code version control. Because of these complex XML schemas and proprietary binary wrappers, generic online converters usually fail. Standard tools cannot parse the strict terminology tags or read the GIS binary structure. Even if the proprietary file is locked, our analysis tools can identify the exact version, inspect the internal structure, and often extract the raw text or embedded .XML data for you.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TBX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert TBX file to TMX, XLSX, TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, PAGES, TEX, LATEX, MD or MARKDOWN, you can use SDL Trados or similar software from the "Terminology Data & GIS Toolboxes" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, DOCX, JPG, TXT, NOTE or RTF files to TBX, try SDL Trados or another comparable tool in the "Terminology Data & GIS Toolboxes" category.
The TBX 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 TBX converter.