Legacy data conversion

Free your data from formats the world left behind.

We read the old Access, FoxPro, dBase and Lotus files no modern app will open — and hand your records back as clean CSV, Excel, PostgreSQL or JSON. No legacy software to install, nothing to figure out.

500+ files convertedEncrypted in transit & at restAuto-deleted after download
clients_1994.dbf· 2.4 MBUNREADABLEPARSED
0000  03 62 0A 19 FoxBASE+ 1A 00 00 ▒▒▒▒
0010  Cli§nt  N°me ▮▮ Ba1ance ▮▮ Jo¤ned
0020  ?? Çåmpbe?? ▒@▒ 1¤4.5#19/03/9?
0030  FF M��ller & C°2õ8.0§ ??/??/94
0040  ?? O'C¶nn¤r ▮▮ 9á.2507/11/9?
Cli§nt N°meBa1anceJo¤ned
Çåmpbe??1¤4.5#19/03/9?
M��ller & C°2õ8.0§??/??/94
O'C¶nn¤r Ltd9á.2507/11/9?
clients · 12,847 rowsUTF-8 · SCHEMA VERIFIED
client_namebalancejoined
Campbell & Sons104.501994-03-19
Müller & Co.208.051994-08-02
O'Connor Ltd96.251994-11-07
Nakamura KK1,540.001995-01-22
Okafor Trading73.801995-04-30
CSVXLSXPostgreSQLJSON
Converted to UTF-8Accents & dates preserved, not mangled
Reads what nothing else will
Microsoft Access .mdbFoxPro .dbfdBase III–IV .dbfLotus 1-2-3 .wk1Paradox .dbClipperBtrieveClarionQuattro Pro .wq1
How it works

Three steps. No legacy software, no command line.

You send the file. We do the archaeology. You get back something you can actually open today.

01

Upload your file

Drag in the file — even if it's a 30-year-old export on a thumb drive. We detect the real format, version and character encoding automatically, even when the file extension lies.

02

We read & convert

We map the original table structure, convert every field to the right modern type, translate old character encodings to UTF-8, and flag anything ambiguous so nothing gets silently mangled.

03

Export & download

Get clean data in the format you use today — CSV, Excel, PostgreSQL, JSON or raw SQL. Re-download any conversion for a full year, no extra charge.

From unreadable to usable

The same records, before and after.

On the left, a real dBase IV dump that errors out in modern tools. On the right, the converted data — pick the format you want it in.

orders_legacy.dbfRAW BYTES
0000: 03 62 0A 19 FoxBASE+ 1A 1F 00
0010: Ord§r IDCust°mer ▮▮ T¤tal
0020: 1001 Çampbe?? & S∞ns £1¤4.5
0030: 1002 M��ller & C°2õ8.0§
0040: 1003 O'C¶nn¤r Ltd 9á.2#
0050: 1004 Nakam¤ra K�K 1,54Ø.0
0060: ▒▒ [deleted record marker] ▒▒
0070: 1005 Okaf°r Tr∂ding 7£.8
0080: FF FF <EOF> 00 00 ▮▮
orders.csv5 ROWS · CLEAN
order_id,customer,total,currency 1001,"Campbell & Sons",104.50,GBP 1002,"Müller & Co.",208.05,EUR 1003,"O'Connor Ltd",96.20,GBP 1004,"Nakamura KK",1540.00,JPY 1005,"Okafor Trading",73.80,NGN
Built to be trusted

Your records are sensitive. We treat them that way.

Old databases hold customer lists, financials and decades of history. Here's exactly how that data is handled while it's with us.

Encrypted end to end

Files are encrypted in transit with TLS 1.3 and at rest with AES-256. Only the conversion engine ever touches the raw bytes.

Deleted automatically

Your uploads and outputs are purged on a fixed schedule after you download. We never sell, share, or train anything on your data — full stop.

Verified, not guessed

Every conversion is checked against the source — row counts, totals and checksums reconciled — so you know nothing was dropped or quietly altered.

Re-download for a year

Lost the file again? Your finished exports stay available in your account for 12 months. Grab them whenever you need them.

500+
files converted to modern formats
40+
legacy formats supported
12 mo
re-download window, included
Pricing & getting started

Got a file stuck in 1998?

Send it over and we'll tell you exactly what's inside — the format, the row count, what converts cleanly — before you pay a cent.