XWP Converter

Extract text from XWP files

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How to extract text from your XWP file

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

Convert XWP to another file type

To convert your XWP file to another format, you need XWidget or other System software.

Convert a file to XWP

To convert other file formats to the "Desktop Customization Archive" file type, you need software like XWidget or a similar tool.

About XWP files

The .XWP extension is most frequently associated with XWidget, a platform for customizing Windows desktop interfaces. These files act as compressed containers - functionally identical to ZIP archives - that bundle the images (PNG, JPG), scripts, and XML configuration files needed to display a widget (like a clock or weather tracker).

The Problem: While .XWP files efficiently package these assets, they are opaque to users without the XWidget engine installed. You cannot preview the design, edit the scripts, or extract the graphics simply by double-clicking. Furthermore, because they can contain executable scripts, downloading them from untrusted sources poses a security risk.

The Solution:

For Customization: If you want to access the internal assets (such as extracting a background image), the most pragmatic approach is to rename the file extension from .XWP to ZIP. This allows you to open it with standard tools like 7-Zip or Windows Explorer to extract contents.
For Scientific Users: A significant minority of .XWP files are Bruker XWinPlot layouts used in NMR spectroscopy. These are proprietary formats that cannot be opened by standard text editors or viewers. The best workflow for these is conversion to PDF or PostScript using the original Bruker software for archival and peer-reviewed publication purposes.
For Legacy Archives: Rare instances may be Xerox Writer documents. These are obsolete and typically require conversion to plain TXT or modern DOCX to recover the written content.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert XWP file to TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, PAGES, TEX, LATEX, MD, MARKDOWN, LOG or NFO, you can use XWidget or similar software from the "Desktop Widget Package" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, DOCX, JPG, TXT, NOTE or RTF files to XWP, try XWidget or another comparable tool in the "Desktop Widget Package" category.

The XWP 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 XWP converter.