Supported file formats

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Coveo is able to recognize and index items in many common file formats, including PDF, Microsoft Office files, Google Docs files, images, web pages, and XML documents.

This article lists the file extensions that are fully supported, which means that Coveo can index the file’s metadata and content. As a result, on a Coveo search interface, you can find an item through either its metadata or a free-text search targeting keywords from the item’s content.

Coveo can still index the metadata of files with other extensions. In such case, these files can be found through their metadata only. Alternatively, you can also index other files using indexing pipeline extensions.

Adobe Acrobat

Coveo can index Adobe Acrobat files with the .pdf extension from versions 1.0 to 1.7 inclusively.

It can also extract and index content from scanned or illustrated .pdf documents.

Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Sheets files

Coveo can index Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Sheets files with the .doc, .ppt, and .xls extensions.

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 for text extraction

Coveo can index image files with the .bmp, .jpeg, .max, .pcx/.dcx, .pdf, .png, .tiff, and .tiff-fx extensions and extract the text in them.

Text extraction requires enabling optical character recognition (OCR).

.bmp, .jpeg, .png, and .tiff files can also be indexed without text extraction. In such case, they remain findable in a Coveo search interface through their metadata.

Image files for metadata extraction

Coveo can index image files for metadata extraction with the following extensions: .bmp, .emf, .exif, .gif, .icon, .jpeg, .png, .tiff, .wmf

Coveo creates thumbnails for files with these extensions.

.bmp, .jpeg, .png, and .tiff files can also be indexed, along with the text they contain. In such case, they remain findable in a Coveo search interface through either their metadata or keywords they contain.

Microsoft Excel

Coveo can index Microsoft Excel files with the .xlam, .xlb, .xlm, .xls, .xlsm, .xlsx, .xltm, and .xltx extensions from versions 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003, 2000, 97, 95, and 5.0.

Coveo can also index Excel 2013 and 2010 attachments.

Microsoft Outlook files

Coveo can index Microsoft Outlook files with the .msg, .oft, and .pst extensions.

These files can contain messages, archives, and templates.

Microsoft PowerPoint

Coveo can index Microsoft PowerPoint files with the .pot, .potm, .potx, .ppam, .pps, .ppsm, .ppsx, .ppt, .pptm, and .pptx extensions from versions 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003, XP, 2000, and 97.

Coveo can also index PowerPoint 2013 and 2010 attachments.

Microsoft Word

Coveo can index Microsoft Word files with the .doc, .docm, .docx, .dot, .dotm, and .dotx extensions from versions 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003, XP, 2000, 98 (for Mac), 97, 95, 6.0, and 6.0 (for Mac).

Coveo can also index Word 2013 and 2010 attachments.

MIME documents

Coveo can index MIME files with the .email, .eml, .ews, and .mime extensions.

Rich Text Format

Coveo can index Rich Text Format files with the .rtf extension.

Text documents

Coveo can index text documents with the .ascx, .bat, .cmd, .config, .csv, .dic, .exc, .inf, .ini, .js, .jsl, .log, .nfo, .scp, .sdl, .sln, .txt, .vbdproj, .vbs, .vdp, .vdproj, .vjp, .vjsproj, .vjsprojdata, .wsdl, .wsf, .wtx, and .xsd extensions, among others.

Coveo can index any file format that contains only text, even if its extension isn’t listed above.

Coveo supports ANSI, ASCII, and Unicode text documents.

Web pages

Coveo can index web pages with the .asp, .aspx, .cgi, .col, .dochtml, .dothtml, .fphtml, .hta, .htm, .html, .jsp, .php, .pothtml, .ppthtml, .shtm, .shtml, and .xlshtml extensions.

When parsing .html files, Coveo’s converter ignores the sections that contain the following tags: select, option, script, strike, style, ?xml, applet, bdo, del, object, s, and noframes.

WordPerfect

Coveo can index WordPerfect files with the .wp, .wpd, and .wpf extensions from versions 5 to 10 inclusively.

XML documents

Coveo can index XML documents with the .xml extension.

XML style sheets

Coveo can index XML style sheets with the .xsl and .xslt extensions.