Supported File Formats

File format support included with the dtSearch Engine

The information below applies to dtSearch versions 7.54 and later.

dtSearch can automatically recognize, index, and search the following formats:

Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf)
Ami Pro (*.sam)
Ansi Text (*.txt)
ASCII Text (See note 2)
ASF media files (metadata only) (*.asf)
CSV (Comma-separated values) (*.csv)
DBF (*.dbf)
EBCDIC
EML files (emails saved by Outlook Express) (*.eml)
Enhanced Metafile Format (*.emf)
Eudora MBX message files (*.mbx)
Flash (*.swf)
GZIP (*.gz)
HTML (*.htm, *.html)
JPEG (*.jpg)
Lotus 1-2-3 (*.wk?, *.123)
MBOX email archives (including Thunderbird) (*.mbx)
MHT archives (HTML archives saved by Internet Explorer) (*.mht)
MIME messages
MSG files (emails saved by Outlook) (*.msg)
Microsoft Access (*.mdb)
Microsoft Access 2007 (*.accdb)
Microsoft Document Imaging (*.mdi)
Microsoft Excel (*.xls)
Microsoft Excel 2003 XML (*.xml)
Microsoft Excel 2007 (*.xlsx)
Microsoft Outlook Express 5 and 6 (*.dbx) message stores
Microsoft PowerPoint (*.ppt)
Microsoft Rich Text Format (*.rtf)
Microsoft Searchable Tiff (*.tiff)
Microsoft Word for DOS (*.doc)
Microsoft Word for Windows (*.doc)
Microsoft Word 2003 XML (*.xml)
Microsoft Word 2007 (*.docx)
Microsoft Works (*.wks)
MP3 (metadata only) (*.mp3)
Multimate Advantage II (*.dox)
Multimate version 4 (*.doc)
OpenOffice 2.x and 1.x documents, spreadsheets, and presentations (*.sxc, *.sxd, *.sxi, *.sxw, *.sxg, *.stc, *.sti, *.stw, *.stm, *.odt, *.ott, *.odg, *.otg, *.odp, *.otp, *.ods, *.ots, *.odf) (includes OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications)
Quattro Pro (*.wb1, *.wb2, *.wb3, *.qpw)
TAR (*.tar)
TIFF (*.tif)
TNEF (winmail.dat)
Treepad HJT files (*.hjt)
Unicode (UCS16, Mac or Windows byte order, or UTF-8)
Windows Metafile Format (*.wmf)
WMA media files (metadata only) (*.wma)
WMV video files (metadata only) (*.wmv)
WordPerfect 4.2 (See note 2) (*.wpd, *.wpf)
WordPerfect (5.0 and later) (*.wpd, *.wpf)
WordStar version 1, 2, 3 (See note 2) (*.ws)
WordStar versions 4, 5, 6 (*.ws)
WordStar 2000
Write (*.wri)
XBase (including FoxPro, dBase, and other XBase-compatible formats) (*.dbf)
XML (*.xml)
XML Paper Specification (*.xps)
XSL
XyWrite (See note 2)
ZIP (*.zip)

Notes

[1] Databases. Each record in a database is treated as a separate document. Previous versions of dtSearch used ODBC to index Microsoft Access databases. Versions 7.54 and later have internal parsers for Access databases, so ODBC is no longer needed. For information on indexing SQL databases, see "Indexing Databases".

[2] Older Word Processor Formats. dtSearch can index and display, but cannot automatically recognize, documents in the following formats:

WordPerfect 4.2
WordStar versions before 4
XyWrite
Ascii Text

For information on how to enable file parsers for these formats, see "The File Type Table".