TPU Converter

Extract text from Turbo Pascal units (TPU)

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How to extract text from your TPU file

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

Convert TPU to another file type

To convert TPU units to another format, you need Turbo Pascal or other Developer software.

Convert a file to TPU

To convert other file formats to the "Compiled Source Unit" file type, you need software like Turbo Pascal or a similar tool.

About TPU files

The .TPU file extension stands as a relic of the DOS era, primarily serving as a Turbo Pascal Unit. Generated by the legendary Turbo Pascal environment by Borland, these files are compiled binaries containing interface code, variables, and procedures. They were designed to speed up linking by storing pre-compiled chunks of a program.

The core problem with .TPU files is their rigid proprietary nature and version fragility. A unit compiled in Turbo Pascal 5.0 is essentially useless in version 5.5 or 6.0 due to changes in the internal binary format. Furthermore, because they are binary blobs, opening them in a standard text editor displays illegible character soup. Users typically encounter these files when trying to resurrect legacy codebases where the original PAS source code has been lost, leaving them locked out of the logic inside the unit.

A significant minority of .TPU files are actually Teleport Pro URL Lists created by the web spider software Teleport Pro. In this context, the file serves as a database of crawled links.

Best Conversion Targets:

For Code Recovery: The ideal path is recovering the original PAS source. While direct conversion is complex, converting to TXT (Hex/ASCII dump) or using specialized decompilation tools is necessary to inspect the logic.
For Data Analysis: If the file is a Teleport Pro list, convert to CSV or TXT to manage the URL list in Microsoft Excel or import it into modern web scraping tools.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert TPU file to JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB, GO, RS or SWIFT, you can use Turbo Pascal or similar software from the "Compiled Pascal Unit" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to TPU, try Turbo Pascal or another comparable tool in the "Compiled Pascal Unit" category.

The TPU 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 TPU converter.