OCR Supported File Types

Last updated: Sep 10^th 2025

Text and Code Files:

• Source code (.java, .c, .cpp, .h, .hpp, .cs, .rb, .py, .php, .go, .js, .pl, .sh, .bat, .asm, .f, .for, .f90, .f95, .f03, .f08, .m, .swift, .scala, .clj, .groovy, .kt, .rs, .vb, .vbs, .mli, .ml, .erl, .ex, .exs, .sql)

• Configuration & data files (.xml, .json, .yaml, .yml, .ini, .conf, .properties, .dtd, .xsd, .xsl, .xslt, .csv, .tsv, .rdf, .ttl, .owl)

• Documentation / text (.txt, .md, .rst, .log, .tex, .latex, .n3)

Office Documents:

• Microsoft Office OLE2 - legacy Word/Excel/PowerPoint: .doc, .xls, .ppt

• Microsoft Office OOXML (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, .ppsx, .xltx, .dotx, .xlsm, .xltm, .pptm, .potx, .ppam, .sldx, .sldm, .docm, .dotm, .xlam)

• OpenDocument formats (.odt, .ods, .odp, .odg, .odf, .odc, .odf, .odm, .ott, .ots, .otp, .otg)

• Apple iWork (.pages, .key, .numbers)

• WordPerfect (.wpd)

• Corel QuattroPro (.qpw)

• Rich text formats (.rtf)

Publication & Ebook Formats:

• PDF documents (.pdf)

• Electronic books (.epub, .fb2, .ibook)

• Adobe PageMaker (.pm6, .pmd, .p65)

• TeX DVI (.dvi)

Archive and Compressed Files:

• Zip archives (.zip, .jar, .war, .ear, .par, .apk, .docx, .xlsx, .pptx, .vsdx, .odt, .ods, .odp)

• 7-Zip archives (.7z)

• RAR archives (.rar)

• TAR archives (.tar, .tgz, .tar.gz, .tbz2, .tar.bz2, .txz, .tar.xz)

• Gzip compressed files (.gz)

• BZip2 compressed files (.bz2)

• XZ compressed files (.xz)

• AR archives (.ar)

• CPIO archives (.cpio)

• AppleSingle/AppleDouble (.as)

Web and Markup Files:

• HTML (.html, .htm, .xhtml)

• CSS (.css)

• JavaScript (.js, .mjs)

• JSON-LD (.jsonld)

• RSS / Atom feeds (.rss, .atom, .xml)

• CHM Help files (.chm)

Images:

• Bitmap images (.bmp, .dib)

• GIF (.gif)

• JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .jfif)

• PNG (.png)

• TIFF (.tif, .tiff)

• WebP (.webp)

• Photoshop (.psd)

• BMP variants, PCX, PNM, TGA, ICO, SVG (.svg, .svgz)

Audio:

• MP3 (.mp3)

• FLAC (.flac)

• Ogg Vorbis / Ogg Opus (.ogg, .oga, .opus)

• WAV (.wav)

• MIDI (.mid, .midi)

• AAC (.aac, .m4a)

• AIFF (.aif, .aiff, .aifc)

• AU (.au, .snd)

Video:

• MP4 (.mp4, .m4v, .f4v)

• QuickTime (.mov, .qt)

• Flash Video (.flv)

• AVI (.avi)

• Matroska (.mkv, .mka, .mks, .mk3d)

• WebM (.webm)

• Ogg Theora (.ogv)

• MPEG video (.mpg, .mpeg, .mpe, .m2v, .mp2, .mpa, .mpv2, .m1v)

Email Formats:

• Outlook PST/OST (.pst, .ost)

• Outlook messages (.msg)

• MBox (.mbox)

• RFC822 mail (.eml)

Other Binary / Special Formats:

• Fonts (.ttf, .otf, .pfb, .afm)

• CAD formats (.dwg, .dxf)

• Scientific data (NetCDF .nc, HDF4 .hdf, HDF5 .h5, MAT .mat, GRIB .grb, .grib2)

• Database formats (.mdb, .accdb, .sqlite, .dbf)

• Executables and libraries (.exe, .dll, .so, .class, .jar)