APS to Unicode Converter
Convert APS DV Prakash font text to Unicode Hindi instantly. Free, private, no sign-up or font installation needed.
APS DV Prakash to Unicode converter tool
How to Convert APS to Unicode?
Follow the below four steps to convert APS DV Prakash text to Unicode correctly.
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Open your APS document and copy the text
Open your file in MS Word or any application where APS DV Prakash font is applied. Select all the text (Ctrl+A) and copy it (Ctrl+C). The text will display as Hindi characters on your screen only if the APS font is installed. Otherwise it will look like garbled symbols.
Important: If copying from MS Word, do not paste directly into this tool. First paste into Notepad (or WordPad), then copy again from there and paste here. MS Word adds hidden formatting characters that can break the conversion. This is a known issue with all APS converters, not just this one. -
Paste into the input box above
Click the Paste button or press Ctrl+V inside the APS input area. The text appears as encoded characters. This is correct: the converter reads the underlying APS encoding, not the visual display.
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Click Convert to Unicode
Hit the blue Convert button. The engine processes the APS character map in order, handling multi character sequences first, then single characters. It also automatically fixes the position of:
- ि (ikar matra): APS stores it before the consonant; the converter moves it after
- र् (reph): APS places it after the syllable; the converter moves it before
- ं (anusvara), repositioned correctly relative to matras
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Copy or download the Unicode output
The Unicode Hindi text is ready to use anywhere. Paste it directly into Gmail, WhatsApp, Google Docs, government portals or any website. No font installation needed on the destination device. You can also download it as a .TXT or .DOC file.
Frequently Asked Questions
APS DV Prakash is a legacy Hindi (Devanagari) font developed by APS (Advanced Publishing Systems) and widely used across India from the 1990s to 2000s for newspaper printing, government DTP work and publishing. Like Krutidev and Chanakya, it stores Hindi text as custom ASCII codes rather than Unicode, so the text is only readable when that specific font is installed.
APS DV Prakash stores Hindi as ASCII character codes. Without the APS font installed and applied, those ASCII codes display as whatever characters your current system font maps them to, which looks like random symbols or English letters. The text itself is not corrupted. Once you convert it to Unicode here, it displays correctly on any device without any font required.
The "C" in APS C DV Prakash stands for Condensed. The two fonts differ in glyph width and appearance: APS C is narrower, fitting more text per column, making it popular in newspaper layouts. However, both fonts use the same character encoding. This means text typed in either font converts identically using this tool. You do not need to select a variant; the converter handles both correctly.
No limit. Paste a single sentence or an entire multi page document. The conversion runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript with no server upload, so there is no timeout, no file size cap and no daily usage limit.
Yes. Government websites, e court systems, NIC portals and online forms all require Unicode Hindi. The output from this converter is standard Unicode Devanagari (same as Mangal or Nirmala UI) and pastes directly into any of these platforms without any font installation on the destination system.
Completely private. The entire conversion runs as JavaScript inside your own browser. Nothing you paste is ever sent to our servers, stored in a database or logged in any way.