Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your XPS file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert XPS to another file type
To convert XPS documents to another format, you need Windows XPS Viewer or other Page Layout software.
Convert a file to XPS
To convert other file formats to the "Fixed-Layout Document" file type, you need software like Windows XPS Viewer or a similar tool.
About XPS files
The .XPS file extension usually represents an XML Paper Specification document. Introduced by Microsoft, this format was designed to compete with Adobe's PDF. It stores a fixed-layout document containing text, images, fonts, and vector graphics. You can read more about its technical specifications on Wikipedia. Less commonly, an .XPS file stores a 3D posable character model used by the XNALara XPS Posing Studio software for fan-art creation. You need to convert .XPS documents because they are highly impractical today. Microsoft no longer installs the XPS Viewer by default in modern Windows versions. Web browsers like Chrome and Safari cannot open them natively. Mac and Linux users need third-party apps just to view the content. Furthermore, 3D .XPS models are locked to the niche XNALara software and are difficult to import into standard 3D suites like Blender. The best conversion target for a document .XPS is PDF to maintain the fixed visual layout, or DOCX if you need to edit the text. Be aware that converting to DOCX may break complex page layouts and alignments. For XNALara models, converting to OBJ or FBX is required for use in modern 3D pipelines, though rigging data may be lost. Standard online converters often fail with .XPS files because the document format is complex and largely abandoned, while the 3D variant is undocumented and proprietary. Because a standard Microsoft .XPS file is actually a compressed ZIP container, our tool can inspect the internal structure to extract your raw text (XML), fonts, and embedded images even if full document rendering fails.
Convert.Guru analyzes your XPS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert XPS file to PDF, JPG, FBX, OBJ, PPT, PNG, XLSX, CSV, INDD, QXP, PUB or PMD, you can use Windows XPS Viewer or similar software from the "Fixed-Layout Document Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MDI, PUB, PDP, PM4, P65, COMIC, WEBTEMPLATE, PMD, SPUB, INDD, PM5 or QXP files to XPS, try Windows XPS Viewer or another comparable tool in the "Fixed-Layout Document Storage" category.
The XPS 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 XPS converter.