File formats at a glance - amber supports these formats

amber supports a variety of file types and formats, whether documents, emails or tickets - our system indexes different file types and makes them findable for you.

Important:

There is a difference between the file types that can be indexed: While some formats can be fully indexed in terms of content, only the metadata is recorded for certain formats. The following overview indicates for which file types this is the case.

Overview of the most important supported file formats:

Category

File type

Indexing

File formats (suffixes)

Special features

Documents

PDF

✅ Full text

.pdf

Can also be made searchable with OCR if scanned.

Word

✅ Full text

Various suffixes. Among others:.doc, .docx, .dot, .dotx

With .docm and .pptm, only the static content is extracted

PowerPoint

✅ Full text

Various suffixes. Among others:.ppt, .pptx, .pot, .potx

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Excel

✅ Full text

Various suffixes. Among others:.xls, .xlsx, .xlsm

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Emails, messages & comments

Outlook & EML files

✅ Full text

Various suffixes. Among others:.eml, .ima, .msg

On the roadmap: .pst

Web files

HTML pages

✅ Full text

.html, .htm

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Text files

Plain text

✅ Full text

.txt, .md, .rtf

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Pictures

Image files

✅ Full text

Various suffixes. Among others:.jpg, .png, .gif, .tiff, .bmp, .svg

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Video/audio files

✅ Metadata

.mp4, .mp3, .wav, .avi

Only metadata indexed

Notes & Wikis

OneNote documents

✅ Full text

Cloud-based

Can only be indexed from OneNote Cloud

Compressed files

ZIP files

🔜 Soon

.zip, .rar, .7z

Planned function

News & Intranet

HTML-based intranets

✅ Full text

Software-Code & Logs

Configuration files

✅ Metadata

.cfg, .ini, .json, .yaml, .xml

Only metadata indexed

Protocol/log files

✅ Metadata

.log, .bak, .tmp

Only metadata indexed

Other

Other formats not listed

✅ Metadata

Examples:.cfg, .log, .ini, .json, .yaml, .xml, .csv, .bak, .tmp, .zip1, .zsh

Some formats are only recorded via metadata

We are continuously working on the relevant, supported file formats to make amber even more powerful. This saves you the hassle of converting your files.

amber also supports many other formats with metadata indexing. If you're missing a certain file type or you would like to know whether a specific file format is supported as well or if you have any other feedback or questions, please contact us! Our support team is at your disposal!

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