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Total CSV ConverterX: Server CSV Converter with ActiveX & Command Line

Server CSV converter with ActiveX & DLL — convert CSV, TSV to PDF, Excel, JSON, XML via command line

Total CSV ConverterX — Server CSV Converter with ActiveX, DLL & Command Line

Windows
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and
2012/2016 / 2019/2022 Server
and
Docker / Citrix / Wine

Total CSV ConverterX is a server-side tool for batch converting CSV and TSV files to PDF, XLS, XLSX, JSON, XML, DBF, DOC, HTML, TXT and OpenOffice formats via command line. No GUI, no interrupting messages — runs silently on Windows Server and desktop Windows.

  • Convert CSV to Excel, CSV to PDF, CSV to JSON and 20+ formats on the server.
  • Includes ActiveX and DLL for direct integration into ASP, PHP, .NET, Python, Delphi and other applications.
  • Full command line support — automate conversions with scripts, batch files and task schedulers.
  • Set custom delimiters, encoding (UTF-8, ANSI, Unicode) and output formatting (number formats, separators).
  • Skip rows, filter columns, preserve folder structure in batch mode. Handles large files with millions of rows.

Total CSV ConverterX works as a standalone client-server application on your local network or as a web service. Multithreaded engine processes large volumes of CSV files at maximum speed. Compatible with IIS, Docker, Citrix and Wine.

Download the free 30-day trial with full functionality — ActiveX, command line and all output formats included. Looking for the desktop version? See Total CSV Converter. More server products at CoolUtils Server Products.

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Examples of Total CSV Converter X

Convert CSV files with Total CSV Converter X and .NET


string src  = @"C:\test\Source.csv";
string dest = @"C:\test\Dest.xlsx";

var cnv = new CSVConverterX();
cnv.Convert(src, dest, "-cXLSX -log c:\\test\\CSV.log");

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(cnv.ErrorMessage))
    throw new Exception(cnv.ErrorMessage);

Convert CSV files on web servers with Total CSV Converter X

public static class Function1
    {
        [FunctionName("Function1")]
        public static async Task Run(
            [HttpTrigger(AuthorizationLevel.Anonymous, "get", "post", Route = null)] HttpRequest req,
            ILogger log)
        {
            StringBuilder sbLogs = new StringBuilder();
            sbLogs.AppendLine("started...");
            try
            {
                ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo();
                startInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
                startInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
                var assemblyDirectoryPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);
                assemblyDirectoryPath = assemblyDirectoryPath.Substring(0, assemblyDirectoryPath.Length - 4);

                var executablePath = $@"{assemblyDirectoryPath}\Converter\CSVConverterX.exe";
                sbLogs.AppendLine(executablePath + "...");
                var srcPath = $@"{assemblyDirectoryPath}\src\sample.csv";
                var outPath = Path.GetTempFileName() + ".xlsx";
                startInfo.FileName = executablePath;

                if (File.Exists(outPath))
                {
                    File.Delete(outPath);
                }

                if (File.Exists(executablePath) && File.Exists(srcPath))
                {
                    sbLogs.AppendLine("files exists...");
                }
                else
                    sbLogs.AppendLine("EXE & source files NOT exists...");
                startInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
                startInfo.Arguments = $"\"{srcPath}\" \"{outPath}\" -cXLSX";
                using (Process exeProcess = Process.Start(startInfo))
                {
                    sbLogs.AppendLine($"wait...{DateTime.Now.ToString()}");
                    exeProcess.WaitForExit();
                    sbLogs.AppendLine($"complete...{DateTime.Now.ToString()}");
                }
                sbLogs.AppendLine("Conversion complete.");
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                sbLogs.AppendLine(ex.ToString());
            }

            return new OkObjectResult(sbLogs);
        }
    }
More information about Azure Functions.

Convert CSV files on web servers with Total CSV Converter X

dim C
Set C=CreateObject("CSVConverter.CSVConverterX")
C.Convert "c:\test\source.csv", "c:\test\dest.xlsx", "-cXLSX -log c:\test\CSV.log"
Response.Write C.ErrorMessage
set C = nothing

Stream the resulting PDF directly from ASP

dim C
Set C=CreateObject("CSVConverter.CSVConverterX")
Response.Clear
Response.AddHeader "Content-Type", "binary/octet-stream"
Response.AddHeader "Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=test.pdf"
Response.BinaryWrite C.ConvertToStream("C:\www\ASP\Source.csv", "C:\www\ASP", "-cpdf -log c:\html.log")
set C = nothing

Convert CSV files with PHP and Total CSV Converter X

$src="C:\\test\\test.csv";
$dest="C:\\test\\test.xlsx";
if (file_exists($dest)) unlink($dest);
$c= new COM("CSVConverter.CSVConverterX");
$c->convert($src,$dest, "-cXLSX -log c:\\test\\CSV.log");
if (file_exists($dest)) echo "OK"; else echo "fail:".$c->ErrorMessage;

Convert CSV files with Total CSV Converter X and Ruby

require 'win32ole'
c = WIN32OLE.new('CSVConverter.CSVConverterX')

src = "C:\\test\\test.csv"
dest = "C:\\test\\test.xlsx"

c.convert(src, dest, "-cXLSX -log c:\\test\\CSV.log")

if not File.exist?(dest)
  puts c.ErrorMessage
end

Convert CSV files with Total CSV Converter X and Python

import win32com.client
import os.path

c = win32com.client.Dispatch("CSVConverter.CSVConverterX")

src  = "C:\\test\\test.csv"
dest = "C:\\test\\test.xlsx"

c.convert(src, dest, "-cXLSX -log c:\\test\\CSV.log")

if not os.path.exists(dest):
    print(c.ErrorMessage)

Convert CSV files with Pascal and Total CSV Converter X

uses Dialogs, Vcl.OleAuto;

var
  c: OleVariant;
begin
  c := CreateOleObject('CSVConverter.CSVConverterX');
  c.Convert('c:\test\source.csv', 'c:\test\dest.xlsx', '-cXLSX -log c:\test\CSV.log');
  if c.ErrorMessage <> '' then
    ShowMessage(c.ErrorMessage);
end;

Convert CSV files on web servers with Total CSV Converter X

var c = new ActiveXObject("CSVConverter.CSVConverterX");
c.Convert("C:\\test\\source.csv", "C:\\test\\dest.xlsx", "-cXLSX");
if (c.ErrorMessage != "")
  alert(c.ErrorMessage)

Convert CSV files with Total CSV Converter X and Perl

use Win32::OLE;

my $src  = "C:\\test\\test.csv";
my $dest = "C:\\test\\test.xlsx";

my $c = CreateObject Win32::OLE 'CSVConverter.CSVConverterX';
$c->convert($src, $dest, "-cXLSX -log c:\\test\\CSV.log");
print $c->ErrorMessage if -e $dest;

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Total CSV ConverterX Customer Reviews 2026

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Rated 4.7/5 based on customer reviews
5 Star

"I convert a CSV file to an XLS file on the windows command line. I was open to installing Office but Total CSV Converter X managed the task without it. A good piece of software, thank you!"

5 Star Ron Duggs
Consumer Settlements

"We had a need to extract several CSV files from different worksheets. Tried several converters, but only this one worked fine. Thank you!"

5 Star Gilbert L.
Independent Developer

"Customers upload nightly transaction CSVs in different dialects: comma-separated US, semicolon-separated EU, tab-separated from a legacy mainframe. Total CSV Converter X normalizes everything to XLSX with our reporting schema before it touches the analytics warehouse. The .NET wrapper plugs into our existing pipeline, throughput is around 300 files per minute on our hardware, and the CLI is deterministic across runs."

5 Star Marek S.
Senior Backend Developer at a fintech

"We replaced an Excel-Interop pipeline that needed Office on every conversion VM. Now those VMs run nothing but CSVConverterX.exe behind a queue. -Recurse -kfs preserves the partner-folder hierarchy on the output side, and -separator with a custom character covers every quirky upload format we receive. Headless on Windows Server Core, no Office, no surprises across four years of production use."

5 Star Aoife K.
DevOps Engineer at a logistics SaaS

"Bundled Total CSV Converter X into our data-migration product under the Royalty-Free License. The one-time per-project fee was a fraction of what Aspose.Cells wanted on a per-developer subscription. Our installer ships and registers the ActiveX, our app calls it directly, end users see only our UI. The 32-bit ActiveX limitation cost us a couple of days of pipeline rework, but support was responsive when we asked about workarounds."

4 Star Tomasz B.
Independent Software Vendor


Command-Line Examples

Total CSV ConverterX ships with CSVConverterX.exe, a console binary you can drive from scripts, scheduled tasks, ETL pipelines, or any backend service that needs to turn CSV and TSV data into a different format. The flag set matches the GUI CSVConverter.exe; for the full reference see the command-line documentation. The recipes below cover the cases we hear about most often from SDK customers.

1. Convert a single CSV to PDF

The smallest possible call — one source file, one output, one target format. Useful for ad-hoc reporting when a clean, paginated PDF needs to land in someone's inbox.

CSVConverterX.exe "C:\reports\sales.csv" "C:\out\sales.pdf" -cPDF

2. Batch a folder of CSVs to Excel

Process every CSV in a folder and write the corresponding XLS files into a sibling output directory. The wildcard *.csv picks up everything at the top level of the source path.

CSVConverterX.exe "C:\reports\*.csv" "C:\out\" -cXLS

Swap -cXLS for -cODS to target OpenOffice Calc, or -cDBF when feeding a legacy database.

3. Recurse a project tree and keep folder structure

Reporting exports often arrive as a dated tree: one folder per region, one subfolder per day. -Recurse walks subdirectories; -kfs recreates the same tree on the output side instead of flattening everything into one bucket.

CSVConverterX.exe "C:\reports\2026\*.csv" "C:\out\2026\" -cPDF -Recurse -kfs

4. European CSV with semicolon delimiter

Excel exports in German, French, and other locales use semicolons instead of commas because the comma is the decimal separator. -comma sets the field delimiter for the input file regardless of the flag's name.

CSVConverterX.exe "C:\reports\de\*.csv" "C:\out\" -cXLS -comma ";"

5. Tab-separated and pipe-separated input

TSV files, exports from SQL clients, and log dumps frequently use a tab or pipe as the field separator. Pass the literal character to -comma — for tab, use \t.

CSVConverterX.exe "C:\data\*.tsv" "C:\out\" -cXLS -comma "\t"
CSVConverterX.exe "C:\data\*.csv" "C:\out\" -cXLS -comma "|"

6. Treat the first row as a header and skip junk rows

Many real-world CSV exports start with a few lines of metadata (report title, date, separator hint) before the actual table begins. -skip drops those preamble rows; -fh tells the converter that the next row is the header so column names propagate into the output.

CSVConverterX.exe "C:\reports\*.csv" "C:\out\" -cXLS -skip 3 -fh

7. Custom string quote character

Some pipelines wrap text fields in single quotes or back-ticks instead of the standard double quote. -quote sets the character the parser treats as a string delimiter on input.

CSVConverterX.exe "C:\exports\*.csv" "C:\out\" -cXML -quote "'"

8. Convert CSV to XML for downstream systems

XML is still the lingua franca for many B2B integrations and ERP imports. The converter writes one XML element per CSV row, using header names as tags when -fh is set.

CSVConverterX.exe "C:\reports\orders.csv" "C:\out\orders.xml" -cXML -fh

9. Drive a queue from a list file

When a worker writes a queue file and the converter consumes it, you don't want to encode every path on the command line. -list reads file masks (one per line) from a text file — ideal for nightly batches assembled by another script.

CSVConverterX.exe -list "C:\queues\nightly.txt" "C:\out\" -cPDF

10. Unattended runs with a detailed log

Once CSVConverterX.exe runs as a service or scheduled job, the only way to know what happened is the log. -verbosity detail writes one line per file instead of errors only; -log redirects all messages to a file so the console stays quiet.

CSVConverterX.exe "C:\reports\*.csv" "C:\out\" -cXLS -log "C:\logs\csvconv.log" -verbosity detail

Add -do if the source files should be deleted after a successful conversion — handy for spool-folder workflows where the queue empties as it drains.

Who Uses Total CSV ConverterX?

Development teams that need server-side CSV conversion via ActiveX or command line

Web Applications

Online CSV Conversion Services

Power web-based CSV-to-PDF and CSV-to-Excel tools

Web developers integrate Total CSV ConverterX via ActiveX into ASP or PHP applications to offer CSV conversion as an online service. Users upload CSV files through a browser, the server converts them to PDF, XLS, or HTML on the fly, and delivers the result — all without any desktop software or pop-up windows.

Enterprise Integration

ERP & Database Export Processing

Convert CSV data dumps from ERP systems automatically

Enterprise IT teams deploy Total CSV ConverterX on servers to process CSV exports from SAP, Oracle, and other ERP systems. Scheduled tasks convert nightly data dumps to Excel for finance teams, XML for partner integrations, or DBF for legacy systems — preserving folder structure and handling custom delimiters automatically.

Data Pipelines

Automated Data Transformation

Transform CSV feeds into JSON, XML, or database formats

Data engineering teams use the command line interface to build conversion steps into ETL pipelines. CSV files from APIs, IoT sensors, or log systems are converted to JSON for web services, XML for data warehouses, or SQL-ready formats for direct database import — with full control over data types, separators, and row filtering.

SaaS & Multi-Tenant

Multi-User Report Generation

Serve converted reports to multiple users on a network

Total CSV ConverterX runs as a client-server application on a local network, allowing multiple users to request CSV conversions simultaneously. Finance, sales, and operations teams each get their data exports converted to the format they need — PDF for management, XLS for analysts, HTML for dashboards — from a single server installation.

Compliance & Archiving

Regulatory Data Archiving

Convert transactional CSV logs to archival PDF and DOC

Regulated industries convert transactional CSV logs and audit trails into PDF or DOC for long-term archival storage. Total CSV ConverterX processes large volumes of files silently on the server with no GUI interruptions, making it ideal for unattended overnight jobs and compliance-driven retention workflows.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Total CSV ConverterX ▼

Total CSV ConverterX is the server edition of Total CSV Converter. It converts CSV and TSV files to DOC, PDF, HTML, TXT, XLS, DBF, XML, and OpenOffice formats on a web server. It has no graphical interface and runs silently, making it suitable for unattended server-side conversion.
The desktop version has a GUI for interactive use. Total CSV ConverterX has no GUI and is designed for server environments. It includes ActiveX for integration into ASP, PHP, and other web applications, and can serve as a standalone client-server application or a web service.
ActiveX is a component technology that lets you call Total CSV ConverterX functions directly from your own code. You can integrate CSV conversion into ASP pages, PHP scripts, or any COM-compatible application. This allows your web application to convert user-uploaded CSV files on the server and return the result automatically.
Total CSV ConverterX converts CSV and TSV files to DOC, PDF, HTML, TXT, XLS, DBF, XML, and OpenOffice formats. You can configure output settings such as number formats, delimiters, and data types for each conversion.
Yes. Total CSV ConverterX supports full command line operation. You can specify input files, output format, delimiters, encoding, row filtering, and all other settings as command line parameters for easy integration into batch scripts and scheduled tasks.
Yes. When you convert CSV files from multiple folders, Total CSV ConverterX preserves the original folder structure in the output directory. This keeps your converted files organized exactly as the source files were arranged.
Yes. You can configure Total CSV ConverterX to skip header rows, footer rows, or any rows you do not need. You can also select specific columns or data ranges to include in the output, giving you full control over what gets converted.
Yes. Total CSV ConverterX supports any delimiter including comma, semicolon, tab, pipe, and custom characters. You can also configure output format settings such as integer and float formats to match the requirements of your target system.
Total CSV ConverterX runs on Windows Server and desktop Windows editions including Windows 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022, as well as Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11. It is compatible with IIS and other web server environments.
Yes. A fully functional 30-day trial is available for download. The trial includes ActiveX, command line support, and all output formats with no limitations, so you can test the integration with your server environment before purchasing.
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Key Features Of Full Registered Version

  • Server-side CSV conversion — no GUI, no interrupting messages
  • Input formats: CSV, TSV, TAB, CIF
  • Output formats: PDF, XLS, XLSX, JSON, XML, DBF, DOC, HTML, TXT, SQL and OpenOffice
  • ActiveX & DLL for integration into ASP, PHP, .NET, Python, Delphi applications
  • Full command line support for scripts and task schedulers
  • Multithreaded engine for maximum processing speed
  • Custom delimiters: comma, semicolon, tab, pipe, or any character
  • Encoding support: UTF-8, ANSI, Unicode, and other codepages
  • Skip rows, filter columns, set output number formats
  • Preserves folder structure in batch mode
  • Handles files with hundreds of columns and millions of rows
  • Works as standalone client-server app or web service
  • Compatible with Windows Server 2003–2022, IIS, Docker, Citrix, Wine
  • Desktop version also available

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