VNM Converter

Extract text from Nameplate design files (VNM)

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How to extract text from your VNM file

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

Convert VNM to another file type

To convert VNM Nameplate files to another format, you need VisuNet Control Center or other Settings software.

Convert a file to VNM

To convert other file formats to the "Industrial Automation Config" file type, you need software like VisuNet Control Center or a similar tool.

About VNM files

The .VNM file extension serves two distinct, high-value industrial purposes that often cause confusion for IT administrators and manufacturing engineers.

Its primary use is as a Nameplate design file for Pepperl+Fuchs VisuNet industrial HMI (Human-Machine Interface) systems. In this context, the file acts as a digital "personality" profile for thin clients, storing connection profiles, screen layouts, and device identification settings (the "Nameplate"). These files are critical for deploying configurations across multiple hazardous-area monitors without manual setup.

A secondary but significant use is within the Videojet ecosystem, specifically for DataFlex thermal transfer overprinters. Here, the .VNM file contains printer job data, label layouts, or variable data coding instructions used on packaging lines.

The Problem: Both formats are strictly proprietary. A .VNM file from a VisuNet system is binary or XML-based and locked to the VisuNet Control Center software. You cannot open it in a text editor to read the configuration, nor can you view the visual design in standard image viewers like Windows Photo Viewer or browsers. Similarly, Videojet files require specific driver software (like CLARiSUITE).

The Solution:

For Documentation: Users often need to convert these configurations to PDF or CSV to document system settings for compliance audits.
For Debugging: Converting the internal data to TXT or XML helps engineers verify connection strings without needing access to the physical HMI hardware.
For Archiving: Since proprietary software versions go obsolete, converting key data to open formats ensures long-term accessibility.

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

Users also converted GNH, SAS, S19 and SCALA files.

FAQ

If you want to convert VNM file to EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP, SAV or DAT, you can use VisuNet Control Center or similar software from the "HMI Configuration Profile" 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 VNM, try VisuNet Control Center or another comparable tool in the "HMI Configuration Profile" category.

The VNM 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 VNM converter.