TDS Converter

Extract text from TDS files

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How to extract text from your TDS file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TDS file.
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Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert TDS to another file type

To convert your TDS file to another format, you need TallyPrime or other Data software.

TDS to EC
TDS to TSS
TDS to PH
TDS to JS
TDS to TS
TDS to PY
TDS to JAVA
TDS to CPP
TDS to C
TDS to CS
TDS to PHP
TDS to RB

Convert a file to TDS

To convert other file formats to the "Tax Return Data" file type, you need software like TallyPrime or a similar tool.

SH to TDS
PY to TDS
KT to TDS
PS1 to TDS
SWIFT to TDS
LUA to TDS
PL to TDS
JAVA to TDS
SCALA to TDS
JS to TDS
VBS to TDS
TS to TDS

About TDS files

The .TDS file extension most commonly represents an Indian e-TDS/TCS return file, a structured data format generated by accounting platforms like TallyPrime for submission to the NSDL (now Protean). These files contain critical financial data regarding Tax Deducted at Source.

Users run into issues because the raw .TDS format is a strict, flat-text file designed for machine validation via the File Validation Utility (FVU), not for human reading. Opening it in a standard text editor reveals a dense, unformatted data stream that is difficult to audit or present to stakeholders. Furthermore, older legacy software like Borland Turbo Debugger and data visualization tools like Tableau also use this extension, creating significant compatibility confusion.

Conversion Recommendations:

For Tax/Accounting: Convert the raw .TDS file to PDF for a clean, printable record of the return, or to CSV/Excel to audit the specific deduction rows before running the government validation utility.
For Tableau Users: A Tableau .TDS file (Tableau Data Source) is actually formatted as XML. Convert it to a standard XML or TXT file to inspect database connection strings and metadata without opening the full Tableau Desktop application.

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

Users also converted ZIP, TSD, CSI, TDL, PDF, TXT, BIN, XLSX, PMD, BAK, SB3, RPT and EASM files.

The TDS 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 TDS converter.