Supported file types

The following is a list of the file formats that can be indexed and searched by Perceptive Search.

Office Productivity Products

• Adobe Acrobat PDF
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft OneNote
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft RTF
• Microsoft Visio *1
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Word for DOS
• Microsoft Works
• OpenOffice
• StarOffice
• WordPerfect 4.2
• WordPerfect 5 - 2000
• XPS Document

Text

• Compuserve email
• DisplayWrite 4
• DisplayWrite 5
• FrameWork 3
• HTML
• HTML metadata only
• HTML text only
• IBM DCA/RTF
• IBM FFT
• Lotus Ami Pro
• Lotus Manuscript
• Lotus WordPro
• MASS-11 PC
• Multimate
• Open Access II
• Professional Write
• Q&A Write
• SGML Text Only
• Text
• Transcript
• Uniplex
• vCard electronic business card
• Wang IWP
• Wang WP Plus
• Windows Write
• Wordstar 2000
• Wordstar 3
• Wordstar 4
• Wordstar 5
• Wordstar 6
• XML document file
• XYWrite

Graphics/Media

• AutoCAD
• Flash
• JPEG Exif Text
• Microsoft Document Image (MDI)
• MP3
• TIFF Image Text
• Windows Media Audio (WMA) *2
• Windows Media Video (WMV) *2

Containers

• Microsoft EML
• Microsoft HTML Help (CHM)
• Microsoft Message (MSG)
• Microsoft Web Archive (MHT)
• PST mail storage
• Sendmail Mailbox
• ZIP Files
• 7z Files
• RAR Files

Other

• dBASE / FoxPro
• IFilter
• Source Code
• Spreadsheet/Other

• *1 = File ID only
• *2 = File ID and metadata only

Other Systems

Perceptive Search can also index content from other non-file system stores, see What can Perceptive Search index for details.