Supported File Formats
The following table provides a list of the item types and formats that Coveo can index. Items of unsupported formats can be indexed by reference or using indexing pipeline extensions.
Document type | File extension | Details |
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Adobe Acrobat | .pdf |
Version 1.0 to 1.7 inclusively |
Epub files | .epub |
Must be indexed by content (see Handling File Formats in Source JSON) |
Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Sheets files | .doc , .ppt , .xls |
Text documents, slides, and spreadsheets created with the Google Docs Editors suite appear as Microsoft files in the search results. Clicking an item link opens this item in Google's web application. |
Image files (text extraction) |
.bmp , .jpeg , .max , .pcx /.dcx , .pdf , .png , .tiff , .tiff-fx |
Requires enabling optical character recognition (OCR) |
Image files (metadata extraction) | .bmp , .emf , .exif , .gif , .icon , .jpeg , .png , .tiff , .wmf |
Creation of thumbnail |
Microsoft Excel | .xlam , .xlb , .xlm , .xls , .xlsm , .xlsx , .xltm , .xltx |
Version 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003, 2000, 97, 95, 5.0 Indexes Excel 2013, 2010 attachments. |
Microsoft Outlook files | .msg , .oft , .pst |
Message, archives, and templates |
Microsoft PowerPoint | .pot , .potm , .potx , .ppam , .pps , .ppsm , .ppsx , .ppt , .pptm , .pptx |
Version 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003, XP, 2000, 97 Indexes PowerPoint 2013, 2010 attachments. |
Microsoft Word | .doc , .docm , .docx , .dot , .dotm , .dotx |
Version 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003, XP, 2000, 98 (for MAC), 97, 95, 6.0, 6.0 (for MAC) Indexes Word 2013, 2010 attachments. |
MIME documents |
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Rich text Format | .rtf |
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Text documents |
Coveo can index any file format that contains only text, even if its extension isn't listed above. |
ANSI, ASCII, Unicode |
Web pages | .asp , .aspx , .cgi , .col , .dochtml , .dothtml , .fphtml , .hta , .htm , .html , .jsp , .php , .pothtml , .ppthtml , .shtm , .shtml , .xlshtml |
When parsing .html files, Coveo converter ignores the sections that contain the following tags: select option script strike style ?xml applet bdo del object s noframes |
WordPerfect | .wp , .wpd ,.wpf |
Version 5 to 10 inclusively |
XML documents | .xml |
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XML style sheets | .xsl , .xslt |
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ZIP archives | .zip |
PKZip (except PKZip 9.0 64-bits) |
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