How to extract text from your XBRL file
- Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your XBRL file.
- You’ll see a preview, if available.
- Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert XBRL to another file type
To convert your XBRL file to another format, you need Arelle or other Data software.
- XBRL to PDF
- XBRL to XML
- XBRL to CSV
- XBRL to JSON
- XBRL to YAML
- XBRL to YML
- XBRL to TOML
- XBRL to INI
- XBRL to CFG
- XBRL to CONF
- XBRL to DAT
- XBRL to DB
Convert a file to XBRL
To convert other file formats to the "Financial Reporting Standard" file type, you need software like Arelle or a similar tool.
- DBF to XBRL
- XML to XBRL
- SQLITE to XBRL
- XLSX to XBRL
- SQL to XBRL
- TSV to XBRL
- ACCDB to XBRL
- YAML to XBRL
- MDB to XBRL
- CSV to XBRL
- ODS to XBRL
- JSON to XBRL
About XBRL files
The .XBRL file is the global standard for exchanging business information, specifically designed as an XML-based format for financial statements, tax returns, and regulatory filings. While XBRL excels at ensuring data accuracy and automated processing by computers, it is notoriously difficult for humans to read directly. The files consist of dense, tagged data structures that look like complex code, making them unintelligible without specialized software like Arelle or expensive enterprise accounting platforms. Users often encounter these files when downloading annual reports from regulators (like the SEC's EDGAR database) or exporting data from accounting systems, only to find they cannot open them in standard office apps. Practical friction arises because the data is strictly structural; opening it in a text editor like Notepad++ reveals raw syntax rather than a readable balance sheet. To make sense of the numbers, the best workflow is converting the file. For deep financial analysis, convert .XBRL to XLSX or CSV to manipulate the data in Microsoft Excel. For presenting the report to stakeholders or archiving, convert to PDF or HTML to render the tagged data into a human-readable layout.
Convert.Guru analyzes your XBRL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted XML, PDF, ZIP, XBRI, XLSX, HTML, XLSM, XHTML, OCT, XLS, P7M, HTM and CSV files.
The XBRL 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 XBRL converter.