Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your VER file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert VER to another file type
To convert VER Version files to another format, you need Notepad++ or other System software.
Convert a file to VER
To convert other file formats to the "Version Information File" file type, you need software like Notepad++ or a similar tool.
About VER files
The .VER file extension serves two radically different purposes, which frequently causes user confusion. Most commonly, it is a plain text or XML-based Version Information File utilized by companies like Hyundai/Kia, HP, and Cisco to manage firmware updates and hardware drivers. In these scenarios, the file acts as a manifest that tells a machine what software version is stored on a USB drive. Conversely, in the engineering and civil planning sectors, a .VER file functions as a highly complex Transportation Planning Model created by PTV Visum. If you have a standard version tracking file, the main disadvantage is that it is typically useless to a human user. You cannot execute or install it, and opening it in legacy text editors can sometimes trigger text encoding errors, especially with UTF-16 files used in modern automotive systems. If you are dealing with a PTV Visum file, the challenge is significantly worse: you need extremely expensive, proprietary software just to view the traffic models. For standard version files, we strongly recommend converting to TXT or PDF for easier reading, archiving, or sharing with IT support. For Visum files, because they are essentially renamed ZIP archives under the hood, we can help you extract the contents into an accessible ZIP format to retrieve the underlying raw XML and data files without paying for a software license.
Convert.Guru analyzes your VER file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert VER file to SYS, DLL, EXE, DRV, VXD, 386, COM, BAT, CMD, SCR, PIF or LNK, you can use Notepad++ or similar software from the "Software Version Tracking" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MSI, EXE, REG, MST, LNK, CAB, CAT, DRV, INF, SYS, MSU or DLL files to VER, try Notepad++ or another comparable tool in the "Software Version Tracking" category.
The VER 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 VER converter.