Download Windows CRD File Viewer

Download this Windows/Linux console application for reading legacy Windows contact card files with .CRD extension, Microsoft Cardfile.

A CRD file is a Cardfile for Windows 3.x file. It contains a list of contacts. The Windows Cardfile is a personal information manager software. This program is not included in modern versions of Microsoft Windows anymore.

ReadCrd is a cross-platform command-line/terminal application that reads and prints the content of the CRD file. The file signature must be MGC or RRG. You can detect the type of your file online on this file type page.

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Usage

Download the Linux or Windows binary file, copy it into a folder with CRD files, open the terminal (console) and run it:

./ReadCrd Contacts.CRD

or to read a file with Windows-1251 encoding

./ReadCrd -e Windows-1251 Contacts.CRD

Limitations

Files with the RRG signature can contain OLE Objects. In this case, only the card title is printed without text data.

Windows Terminal

Use the command chcp to display and change the code page used by the terminal. For example, to set the UTF-8 encoding use

chcp 65001
ReadCrd.exe -e Windows-1251 Contacts.CRD

Or set the Windows-1251 encoding

chcp 1251
ReadCrd.exe Contacts.CRD

To save the CRD file content to a text file use redirection:

./ReadCrd Contacts.CRD > crd-content.txt