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
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	`.email`, `.eml`, `.ews`, `.mime` MIME converter available with CES 7.0.5935+ (September 2013 monthly release)
Rich text Format	`.rtf`
Text documents	`.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`, `.xsd` 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`
XML style sheets	`.xsl`, `.xslt`
ZIP archives	`.zip`	PKZip (except PKZip 9.0 64-bits)

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