Answers to common questions about converting Lotus Ami Pro .SAM documents, preserving originals, and choosing output formats.
No. The converter is a standalone Windows desktop application with its own native .SAM parser, so it does not require Lotus Ami Pro, Lotus Word Pro, or any other legacy software. That matters because Ami Pro was discontinued in the 1990s and its installers will not run cleanly on 64-bit Windows 11.
Microsoft Word has no Ami Pro import filter, and LibreOffice has never shipped one either — despite supporting WordPerfect, ClarisWorks, MacWrite, and dozens of other obsolete formats. That gap is the reason this app exists.
Keep them next to the documents. Ami Pro stored paragraph styles in a separate .STY file, and the converter applies the matching style sheet automatically so headings, body text, and quotations keep their intended appearance instead of collapsing to a single font.
Embedded WMF and EMF diagrams are recovered as images, and Ami Pro equations are recovered both as rendered images and, where possible, as extracted LaTeX so the mathematics stays machine-readable.
Legacy conversion depends on the original file and the features it used. For records that matter legally, convert a representative sample first and review headings, tables, footnotes, and any recovered equations before running the whole archive.
Choose DOCX for editable review, PDF for fixed archive snapshots, RTF for older document management systems, ODT when policy mandates OpenDocument, HTML for intranet publishing, Markdown for AI and documentation pipelines, and TXT for bulk text analysis.
Never. Every conversion runs locally on your PC, which is what makes the app usable on air-gapped machines and inside organisations that cannot send confidential documents to an online converter.
The trial converts up to 10 files with no feature restrictions, so you can test real documents from your own archive before paying. A lifetime licence unlocks unlimited conversions.