Extract text from Database files (TDB)
To convert TDB Databases to another format, you need Tanner EDA or other Database software.
To convert other file formats to the "Application Database File" file type, you need software like Tanner EDA or a similar tool.
The .TDB (Tanner Database) extension is a highly fragmented file type. Most commonly, it is an electronic design database used by Tanner EDA (now part of Siemens) for integrated circuit design in Tanner L-Edit. However, it is also widely used as a generic database extension for the Microsoft Jet Database Engine, SQLite 3, TinyDB, and even packaged digital textbooks for the Snowball e-book platform.
The primary disadvantage of a .TDB file is its unpredictability. Because multiple software vendors chose the same extension, standard operating systems rarely know how to open it. Proprietary files like Tanner EDA databases are locked behind expensive enterprise software and cannot be natively viewed in web browsers. Older Microsoft Jet databases are deprecated and pose security vulnerabilities, while thumbnail caches from Android or Samsung devices are simply wasted storage space.
If your file contains relational data, your best conversion targets are universally supported formats like CSV, JSON, or SQL dumps. If you are dealing with a Snowball e-book, the file is actually a compressed ZIP archive containing JSON data, which can be extracted and repackaged into an EPUB.
Standard online converters often fail to process .TDB files because they rely solely on the ambiguous file extension. Proprietary CAD/EDA data is especially difficult to parse without the original software. Our analyzer inspects the underlying binary headers to detect if your file is actually a supported standard database or an embedded archive, allowing you to bypass the extension confusion entirely.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TDB file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted TBD, TDP, GDS, PSS, ZIP, YTD, PDF, IBD, SAV, MPD and UTC files.
If you want to convert TDB file to UTC, BAK, BACKUP, OLD, TMP, TEMP, ARC, ZIP, TAR, GZ, 7Z or RAR, you can use Tanner EDA or similar software from the "Database Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SNAPSHOT, OLD, IMG, RESTORE, ISO, COPY, VMDK, TMP, VHD, BAK, ARCHIVE or BACKUP files to TDB, try Tanner EDA or another comparable tool in the "Database Storage" 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 TDB converter.