Supported File Formats

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Hi All, 
 I am looking for an updated lists of all file formats that are supported within M-Files, wondering if there is such a list available? I have only been able to find a really old and partial list in my research. 
 
 Thanks!

Joonas Linkola · Accepted Answer

Can you please elaborate what kind of support do you mean here as different M-Files features have different file format support? Most commonly asked ones that I can think of: 
 
 Storing and managing documents: you can store any type of file into an M-Files vault, there are no restrictions to this by default 
 Full-text indexing: see Defining File Types for Indexing 
 Preview: see Supported File Formats in Preview 
 PDF conversions: see Supported Source File Formats for PDF Conversion 
 Optical character recognition (OCR): see Scanning and Text Recognition (OCR) 
 Co-authoring: see Checking Out a Document for Co-Authoring 
 
 Let me know if you meant something else and I'll try to find the answer.

bright-ideas.dk · Answer

File formats themselves do not create problems, no limitations there. However, some CAD programs and other advanced applications use multiple files at the same time, and some of them need to be placed in a specific folder structure for the application to work. M-Files is not able to handle this out the box. There add on solutions available for some of those CAD solutions.

Craig Hawker · Answer

You can store pretty much any file format into M-Files; I can't think of any limitations at our side, aside from the product features (for example: those listed above by Joonas Linkola ) that have to physically interact with the file data. If you're not using those then M-Files will treat the file simply as a stream of data.

Supported File Formats

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