Nothing OpensAmi Pro FilesAnymore. This Does.
Convert Lotus Ami Pro .SAM documents to DOCX, PDF, RTF, ODT, HTML, Markdown, and TXT on your PC—100% local, no uploads.
Free trial
Full app features — up to 10 files
Windows 10 or 11
Download the installer below for the full 10-file trial. Microsoft Store install will appear here once our listing is approved.
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Requires Windows 10 or 11. No subscriptions. Built for local Ami Pro document migration.
Don't Upload Confidential Documents to Free Cloud Converters
Ami Pro archives are usually old business records: signed contracts, litigation files, board minutes, personnel matters, and patient or client correspondence.
The Risk
Online converters turn reading an old document into an untracked third-party data transfer — no retention terms, no processing location, no audit trail.
The Scale Problem
Uploading one file at a time does not work for a departmental archive of thousands of .SAM documents spread across nested folders.
The Application Gap
Ami Pro is long discontinued, Word has never had a .SAM import filter, and LibreOffice has no Ami Pro filter at all — so nothing on a modern PC opens these files.
Popular Ami Pro conversions
Jump straight to a step-by-step guide for the output format you need.
Open .SAM files
Can’t open a .SAM file on Windows? Here’s the reliable fix.
SAM → Word
Turn Ami Pro documents into fully editable DOCX.
SAM → PDF
Produce fixed, citable PDFs for archives and disclosure.
SAM → RTF
Maximum compatibility for DMS and review platforms.
SAM → ODT
OpenDocument for LibreOffice and ODF retention policies.
SAM → HTML
Publish decades of documents to your intranet.
SAM → Markdown
Docs-as-code pipelines and AI retrieval indexes.
SAM → TXT
Make the whole archive searchable in one pass.
Professional Ami Pro Recovery, Total Data Sovereignty
Built for legal, government, academic, and IT teams who can't compromise on confidentiality or fidelity
Multi-Format Output
Tick DOCX, PDF, and Markdown and convert to all three in a single pass — no need to run the converter once per format. Parse your archive once, get every output your downstream teams need.
Windows Explorer Quick Convert
Right-click a .SAM file or folder in Windows Explorer and launch a focused quick-convert workflow without opening the full app first — ideal for one-off recoveries and help-desk migration tasks.
Watch Folders
Point the app at a migration drop zone and any new .SAM file that lands there is converted automatically — perfect for staged retirement of an old file server or department share.
100% Local Processing
Ami Pro Converter works where your Ami Pro documents already are. Files stay on your machine, behind your firewall — suitable for legal privilege, GDPR, HIPAA, and contractual confidentiality obligations that prohibit cloud uploads. It runs on air-gapped PCs too.
Native .SAM Parser
Reads the Ami Pro format directly, from the [ver] header on down — no Ami Pro install, no import filter, and no dependency on LibreOffice, which has never shipped an Ami Pro filter at all. Uppercase .SAM and SZDD-compressed files are handled too.
True Bulk Automation
Don't just convert files; convert archives. Point Ami Pro Converter at entire folder trees and it recursively scans your directories, processing thousands of Ami Pro documents in minutes rather than days.
Folder Structure Preservation
Choose how your converted output is organized. Mirror the original archive's department, year, or business-unit folder hierarchy in a new location, or write converted files directly alongside the originals.
Diagrams, Equations & Style Sheets
Purpose-built for Ami Pro. The matching .STY style sheet is applied automatically, embedded WMF/EMF diagrams are recovered as images, and equations come back as rendered images plus extracted LaTeX — with tables and inline formatting preserved.
AI-Enabling Output
Export to Markdown and plain text for RAG, LLMs, and enterprise search. Real heading structure and LaTeX equations beat PDF extraction noise — Ami Pro Converter turns a decades-old Ami Pro archive into AI-ready content without sending data to the cloud.
No Ami Pro Needed
Don't rebuild a Windows 98 virtual machine just to read old documents. Ami Pro Converter is fully standalone — no Ami Pro or Lotus Word Pro required, no Office add-ins, no third-party runtimes. It handles Ami Pro 1.2, 2.x, and 3.x, including OS/2 and DOS-era files. Install and convert.
Supported formats
Convert Lotus Ami Pro documents — including uppercase .SAM and SZDD-compressed files, with companion .STY style sheets applied automatically — into modern formats for editing, archiving, publishing, and AI preparation.
Inputs
.sam
Outputs
DOCX, PDF, RTF, ODT, HTML, Markdown, TXT
Industry solutions
Ami Pro was strongest where documents matter most — and those are the organisations still holding .SAM archives decades later.
Vote on the Ami Pro Converter roadmap
The public roadmap uses the same feature options managed in the admin dashboard, so visitor votes and admin priorities stay aligned.
Style sheet mapping report
Show how each Ami Pro .STY paragraph style was mapped to the output document so migration leads can review headings and body text before sign-off.
Archive ZIP batch input
Drop a ZIP of Ami Pro documents into the app and convert the extracted .sam and .sty set into a mirrored output folder.
Conversion QA sampling report
Generate a review checklist that samples converted files by extension, folder, and result status for migration sign-off.
Markdown front-matter presets
Emit configurable YAML front matter with title, date, and source path when converting to Markdown for docs and RAG pipelines.
Command-line batch runner
Run repeatable Ami Pro conversion jobs from scripts for IT teams, records departments, and locked-down migration workstations.
Need to convert more than Ami Pro files?
Old archives are rarely just one format. Legacy File Converter is the universal app from the same team — it opens and converts documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and images across 100+ legacy and modern formats, entirely offline on your PC.
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100% offline · no uploads · batch-convert whole folders at once.
Start with the full-feature trial
Convert up to 10 Ami Pro documents locally — every feature enabled, no watermarks — then unlock unlimited conversion with a one-time $49.95 lifetime license.
Free trial
Full app features — up to 10 files
Windows 10 or 11
Download the installer below for the full 10-file trial. Microsoft Store install will appear here once our listing is approved.
| InstallerAvailable now | Microsoft StoreComing soon |
|---|---|
Download Installer Same trial as Store | Microsoft Store Coming soon — listing in review |
More than Ami Pro files?
Legacy File Converter · from $99
Ami Pro documents are rarely alone. Convert WordPerfect, Lotus, Works, images, and 100+ legacy formats — fully offline.