UDF Converter

Extract text from UYAP documents (UDF)


Drop or upload your .UDF file

How to extract text from your UDF file

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

Convert UDF to another file type

To convert UDF documents to another format, you need Uyap Kelime İşlemci or other Text software.

Convert a file to UDF

To convert other file formats to the "UYAP Judicial Document" file type, you need software like Uyap Kelime İşlemci or a similar tool.


About UDF files

The .UDF file format is most commonly associated with the UYAP Document Format, which is the official digital document standard for the Turkish judicial system (National Judiciary Informatics System). These files are generated by the Uyap Kelime İşlemci (UYAP Word Processor) and are used by lawyers, citizens, and court officials to draft, digitally sign, and submit legal documents. Less frequently, a .UDF file may act as a backup for a Ricoh printer address book, a satellite receiver channel database for GTMedia devices, or a Universal Disk Format disk image.

A major disadvantage of the UYAP .UDF file is its extremely proprietary nature. While structurally it is just a ZIP container holding XML data, it cannot be natively opened, viewed, or edited by standard word processors like Microsoft Word or Google Docs. Users who do not have the specialized Java-based UYAP editor installed - especially those on mobile devices or operating outside of the Turkish legal network - will find these files impossible to read. Furthermore, they contain digital signature validation layers that can complicate external editing.

To bypass these strict limitations, converting the file is the most pragmatic solution. For universal reading, archiving, or sharing with clients, convert .UDF to PDF. If you need to edit the text in a standard application, convert it to DOCX. For Ricoh printer backups, convert the file to CSV to manage contacts in a standard spreadsheet. Drag and drop your file to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software.

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

Users also converted PDF, UTF8, JPG, TIF, ZIP, EYP, SDOCX, JPEG, XML, UFD, TXT, UDF 2 and UPF files.


FAQ

If you want to convert UDF file to PDF, MP4, CSV, ISO, NTFS, IMG, DMG, VHD, VMDK, VDI, HDD or QCOW, you can use Uyap Kelime İşlemci or similar software from the "Legal Document Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert VFD, DMG, OVA, IMA, VBOX, ADF, PVS, VHD, OVF, ISO, DSK or IMG files to UDF, try Uyap Kelime İşlemci or another comparable tool in the "Legal Document Storage" category.



The UDF 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 UDF converter.