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 XBRL financial reports to another format, you need Arelle or other Data software.
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.
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.
If you want to convert XBRL file to PDF, XML, CSV, JSON, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use Arelle or similar software from the "Financial Data Reporting" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to XBRL, try Arelle or another comparable tool in the "Financial Data Reporting" category.
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.