TES Converter

Extract text from WordPerfect and Elder Scrolls files (TES)


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

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

Convert TES to another file type

To convert TES files to another format, you need WordPerfect or other Data software.

Convert a file to TES

To convert other file formats to the "Proprietary Data Database" file type, you need software like WordPerfect or a similar tool.


About TES files

The .TES file extension represents several completely different formats. Most commonly, it is a WordPerfect Thesaurus File used by legacy WordPerfect software to supply synonyms during document editing. Another major use is as a Machine Learning Test Dataset, frequently utilized in OCR training like Tesseract or by the UCI Machine Learning Repository for handwritten digit recognition. Finally, gamers often encounter .TES files as The Elder Scrolls Game Data or mod files created by Bethesda Game Studios. Handling a .TES file is frustrating because it lacks a standard structure. If it is a WordPerfect thesaurus, it is a proprietary, closed binary format useless outside its native ecosystem. You cannot easily read it in modern text editors. If it is an Elder Scrolls data file, opening it requires specific modding tools like TES5Edit; otherwise, it is just raw, unreadable game data. Test datasets for machine learning are often plain text or simple binary, but their layout is rigid and highly specific to the software that generated them. Users usually want to extract text from a thesaurus into TXT or convert test datasets into CSV or JSON for modern data science workflows. Elder Scrolls players might want to extract game assets or convert mods to different load order formats. Because these are highly specialized or proprietary formats, standard online converters fail to process them. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying structure, viewing or partial conversion may still be possible.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert TES file to EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP, SAV or DAT, you can use WordPerfect or similar software from the "Data Storage and Game Assets" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to TES, try WordPerfect or another comparable tool in the "Data Storage and Game Assets" category.



The TES 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 TES converter.