File formats at a glance - amberSearch supports these formats
amberSearch 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 | ✅ Full text | 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 | ─ | |
| Excel | ✅ Full text | Various suffixes. Among others:.xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, .csv | ─ | |
| 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 | ─ |
| Text files | Plain text | ✅ Full text | .txt, .md, .rtf | ─ |
| Pictures | Image files | ✅ Full text | Various suffixes. Among others:.jpg, .png, .gif, .tiff, .bmp, .svg | ─ |
| 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 amberSearch even more powerful. This saves you the hassle of converting your files.
amberSearch 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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