Why convert ZHELP to HTML?
ZipHelp was designed as an open format: it is standard WebHelp HTML packaged in a Zip archive. Pulling it back out to .html lets you host the help on a website, edit pages, or view them in a plain browser without any help viewer.
How to convert ZHELP to HTML
7-Zip FREE
Right-click the .zhelp and choose 7-Zip > Extract Here; if it is not recognized, rename it to .zip first, then open index.html.
The Unarchiver FREE
On macOS, open the .zhelp with The Unarchiver (or rename to .zip) to unpack the HTML folder, then open the pages in Safari.
unzip (command line) OPEN-SOURCE
Run unzip yourfile.zhelp -d yourfolder to extract the HTML, XML sitemap and assets into a folder you can serve or browse.
About these formats
A .zhelp file is a Ziphelp Package, an open help-documentation format from EC Software. It is a standard ZIP archive that holds an extended sitemap.xml plus the HTML topics and media that…
Open .ZHELP details →
.HTML
HyperText Markup Language Web Page
An HTML file is a web page - plain text with markup tags that a browser turns into the formatted page you see. To view it, double-click and it opens in your browser (Edge, Chrome, Firefox,…
Open .HTML details →Quality & what to watch
- The extracted pages are the raw WebHelp output; interactive table-of-contents and full-text search may rely on the viewer's scripts and can behave differently outside it.
- Nothing is lost in the extraction itself - the HTML is stored uncompressed content inside the Zip, not re-encoded.
- Relative links and image paths assume the original folder structure, so keep the whole extracted folder together when hosting.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need special software to get the HTML?
.zhelp is a standard Zip, so any archiver - 7-Zip, The Unarchiver or unzip - extracts the HTML.Why won't my Zip tool recognize the .zhelp?
.zip and it will open normally.Which file do I open after extracting?
index.html in a browser; the XML sitemap file lists the topic order used by the viewer.
