Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WDE file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert WDE to another file type
To convert WDE templates to another format, you need WinDev or other Developer software.
Convert a file to WDE
To convert other file formats to the "Report Template" file type, you need software like WinDev or a similar tool.
About WDE files
The .WDE file extension primarily represents a WinDev Report Template used by the WinDev integrated development environment (IDE). Developers use these files to define the visual layout, data bindings, and printing parameters for reports generated from databases. A smaller subset of .WDE files are Indic word processor documents, specifically created by the legacy software Akshar for Windows to store Gujarati text. Both formats are highly proprietary. WinDev templates require a paid IDE license from PC SOFT to open and edit natively. This creates significant bottlenecks when sharing templates with non-developers or stakeholders who lack the software. Furthermore, these files cannot be opened directly in standard word processors or web browsers. The legacy Akshar documents suffer from similar isolation, relying on outdated software and non-Unicode font mappings that make modern text extraction difficult. Users frequently attempt to convert .WDE templates into standard document formats like PDF, DOCX, or HTML for sharing and printing. Legacy text files often need conversion to TXT or RTF using standard UTF-8 encoding. However, standard online converters routinely fail to process .WDE files because the internal structures are closed, undocumented binaries. Often, only the original software can correctly parse the data and export it without breaking the layout. Our tool inspects the internal binary structure of the .WDE file. Even if full layout conversion fails, we can often extract embedded text, SQL queries, or underlying data, giving you access to the core content without needing the original software.
Convert.Guru analyzes your WDE file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert WDE file to , you can use WinDev or similar software from the "Report Template Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to WDE, try WinDev or another comparable tool in the "Report Template Storage" category.
The WDE 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 WDE converter.