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Supported File Formats for File Type Detection

Files in these formats can be identified using signature-based file type detection, but analysis of content or metadata is currently not supported.

  • 3D Systems STL format
  • 3GPP video file
  • 3GPP2 video file
  • 4X Movie File
  • 7 Zip
  • ABAP Source Code
  • AC3 Audio (Dolby Digital)
  • ACT
  • AD1 Evidence file
  • AES Multiplus Comm
  • ALIS
  • AMI Pro Draw
  • AMPL Source Code
  • AMV video file
  • APL Source Code
  • ARJ (Archive by Robert Jung) file format
  • ART image format
  • ASCII Text
  • ASN.1 Source Code
  • AT&T DjVu
  • ATS Source Code
  • Abaqus ODB
  • Ability
  • Acorn RISC ARMovie video
  • Adaptive Multi-Rate audio
  • Adobe Flash Player audio
  • Adobe Flash Player audio book
  • Adobe Flash Player protected video
  • Adobe Flash Player video
  • Adobe Font Metrics ASCII
  • Adobe FrameMaker
  • Adobe InDesign document
  • Adobe Maker Interchange
  • Adobe Multiple master font
  • Adobe PDF
  • Adobe Photoshop Document
  • Adobe PostScript Printer Description file
  • Adobe Printer Font ASCII
  • Adobe Printer Font Metrics
  • Advanced Streaming Format
  • Advanced Systems Format (ASF)
  • Agda Source Code
  • Aldus Freehand Mac
  • Aldus PageMaker
  • Alloy Source Code
  • Amiga IFF (8SVX) Sound
  • Amiga MOD
  • Amiga Metafile
  • Android Package Kit (APK)
  • Apex Source Code
  • Apple Binary Property List format
  • Apple Core Audio Format
  • Apple Desktop Services Store file
  • Apple Double
  • Apple ISO-BMFF QuickTime video
  • Apple MPEG-4 Part 14 audio
  • Apple MPEG-4 Part 14 audio book
  • Apple MPEG-4 Part 14 protected audio
  • Apple MPEG-4 Part 14 video
  • Apple Single
  • Apple XML Property List format
  • Apple iChat format
  • Apple iWork 2013 Keynote format
  • Apple iWork 2013 Numbers format
  • Apple iWork 2013 Pages format
  • Apple iWork Numbers
  • Apple iWorks Keynote
  • Apple iWorks Pages
  • Apple/NeXT typedstream data
  • AppleScript Binary Source Code
  • AppleScript Source Code
  • AppleWorks File
  • Applix Bitmap image
  • Applix Builder
  • Applix Graphics
  • Applix Spreadsheets
  • Applix Words
  • Arduino Source Code
  • AsciiDoc Source Code
  • AspectJ Source Code
  • Assembly Code
  • Audible Enhanced Audiobook
  • Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) Sound
  • AutoCAD Drawing (DWG)
  • AutoCAD Drawing Exchange
  • AutoDesk Animator FLIC
  • AutoDesk Animator Pro FLIC
  • AutoDesk WHIP
  • AutoShade Rendering
  • Autodesk Design Web
  • Autodesk Maya ASCII file
  • Autodesk Maya binary file
  • Awk Source Code
  • B1  format
  • BBC Dirac video
  • BinHex Archive
  • Bink audio-video container
  • Bitmap
  • BlackBerry Activation File
  • BlitzMax Source Code
  • Bluespec Source Code
  • Borland Reflex 2 format 
  • Brainfuck Source Code
  • Brightscript Source Code
  • Bzip2
  • C Source Code
  • C# Source Code
  • C++ Source Code
  • CAD Binary Logging
  • CAD Measurement Data
  • CADAM Drawing
  • CADAM Drawing Overlay
  • CATIA Formats (CAT*)
  • CDA / DDIF
  • CEOwrite
  • CLIPS Source Code
  • CMake Source Code
  • COBOL Source Code
  • COMET TOP Word
  • CPIO Archive
  • CPT
  • CWeb Source Code
  • Cadam Drawing
  • Calamus Desktop Publishing
  • Canon Digital Camera image
  • Canon Raw image
  • CartoCSS Source Code4
  • Cascading Style Sheet
  • Casio Digital Camera image
  • Catia Drawing
  • Ceylon Source Code
  • Chapel Source Code
  • Chinese AVS video
  • Clarion Source Code
  • Clean Source Code
  • Clojure Source Code
  • CoffeeScript Source Code
  • Comma Separated Values
  • Common Lisp Source Code
  • Compactor / Compact Pro
  • Component Pascal Source Code
  • Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)
  • Conifer Wavpack format
  • Convergent Design file
  • Convergent Technologies DEF Comm. Format
  • Cool Source Code
  • Coq Source Code
  • Corel Draw
  • Corel Presentations
  • Corel Quattro Pro
  • Creative Signal Processor codec
  • Creative Voice (VOC)
  • Creole Source Code
  • Crystal Source Code
  • Csound Document Source Code
  • Csound Source Code
  • Cuda Source Code
  • Curses Screen Image
  • dBase Database
  • D Source Code
  • DCA-FFT (IBM Final Form)
  • DCF Script
  • DCS
  • DECdx
  • DG Common Data Stream (CDS)
  • DIGITAL Command Language Source Code
  • DLS Downloadable Sounds
  • DMB MAF audio
  • DMB MAF video
  • DOS/Windows Object Module
  • DSA101 (Honeywell Bull)
  • Data Interchange Format (DIF)
  • DeVice Independent file (DVI)
  • Debian binary package
  • Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
  • Digital Interface Format (DIF) DV video
  • Digital Media Project Content
  • Digital Video Broadcast
  • Disk Doubler
  • Disk Image
  • Display Write
  • Dockerfile
  • Documentum EMCMF format
  • EBCDIC Text
  • ELF Dynamic Library
  • ELF Executable
  • ELF Relocatable
  • Eiffel Source Code
  • Electronic Publication
  • EmailXtender Native Message (ONM)
  • Embedded OpenType font
  • EnCase Forensic Image
  • Enable Spreadsheet
  • Enable Word Processing
  • Encapsulated PostScript
  • Encrypted Adobe PDF
  • Encrypted Microsoft Excel
  • Encrypted Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Encrypted Microsoft Word
  • Enhanced Window Metafile
  • Envoy
  • Erlang Source Code
  • Executable (EXE, DLL)
  • Executable (Unix, VAX, SUN)
  • Extended or Custom XML
  • F# Source Code
  • FPX Format
  • FTP Session Data
  • Fax Systems (CCITT, DCX)
  • FileMaker (Mac)
  • FileShare Encrypted
  • Flash video File
  • Flexible Image Transport System FITS image
  • Folio Flat File
  • Fortran Source Code
  • Founder Chinese E-paper Basic (ceb)
  • Framework
  • Framework II
  • Free Lossless Audio Codec
  • GEM Bit Image
  • GEM VDI
  • GIF
  • GIMP XCF image
  • GNU Message Catalog
  • GZ Compress Encapsulation
  • General Ogg Container
  • Generic XML
  • Ghost Disk Image File
  • Git Packfile
  • Go Source Code
  • Google Doc
  • Google Drawings
  • Google Forms
  • Google My Maps
  • Google Sheets
  • Google Sites
  • Google SketchUp
  • Google Slides
  • Groovy Source Code
  • Group Wise File Surf email
  • HP Graphics Language
  • HP Graphics Language (Plotter)
  • HP Printer Control Language (PCL)
  • HP Word PC
  • HTML
  • Hancom Hangul
  • Harvard Graphics
  • Harvard Graphics Chart
  • Harvard Graphics Configuration File
  • Harvard Graphics Palette
  • Harvard Graphics Symbol File
  • Haskell Source Code
  • Health Level7 Message
  • Hewlett Packard Graphics Language
  • Hierarchical Data Format HDF4
  • Hierarchical Data Format HDF5
  • High Efficiency Image Format HEVC image
  • High Efficiency Image Format image
  • High Efficiency Image Format image sequence
  • IBM 1403 Line Printer
  • IBM DCA RFT
  • IBM Lotus Domino DXL
  • IBM Lotus Notes Database NSF/NTF
  • IBM Writing Assistant
  • ICHITARO Compressed format
  • ICHITARO V4-10
  • IFF Amiga animated raster graphics
  • IFF Animated Bitmap
  • IFF Glow Icon image
  • IFF Planar BitMap
  • IFF TDDD and Imagine Object animation
  • IFF-DEEP TVPaint image
  • IFF-FAXX Facsimile image
  • IFF-MAUD MacroSystem audio
  • IRIX Silicon Graphics moviemaker video file
  • ISMACryp 2.0 Encrypted
  • ISO 10303-21 STEP
  • ISO disc image
  • ISO-BMFF Dirac Wavelet compression
  • ISO-BMFF JPEG 2000 compound image
  • ISO-BMFF JPEG 2000 image
  • ISO-BMFF JPEG 2000 with extensions
  • ISO-BMFF MPEG-4 with AVC extension
  • Initialization (INI) file
  • InstallShield Cabinet Archive
  • InstallShield Uninstall
  • InstallShield Z archive
  • Intergraph Standard File Format (ISFF) V7 DGN (non-OLE)
  • Interleaf
  • Interleaved BitMap image
  • International Color Consortium files
  • Internet Archive ARC
  • Interplay MVE video
  • JBIG2 File Format
  • JPEG
  • JPEG 2000 PGX Verification Model image
  • JPEG Network Graphics
  • Java Class format
  • Java JCE Key Store
  • Java Key Store
  • Java Source Code
  • Javascript Source Code
  • KDDI Video file
  • Keepass Password file
  • Keyhole Markup Language
  • LHA Archive
  • LS-DYNA State Database
  • LS-DYNA binary output (binout)
  • LZMA compressed data
  • Lasergraphics Language
  • Legato EMailXtender Archive
  • LightWave Object
  • Lotus 1-2-3
  • Lotus 1-2-3 Formatting
  • Lotus AMI Pro
  • Lotus Ami Pro Style Sheet
  • Lotus Freelance Graphics
  • Lotus Notes CDF
  • Lotus PIC
  • Lotus ScreenCam
  • Lotus Word Pro
  • Lua Source Code
  • Lyrix Word Processing
  • MAF Photo Player
  • MASS-11
  • MATLAB file format
  • MIDI
  • MORE Database MAC
  • MP3 (MPEG Audio)
  • MPEG Movie
  • MPEG Sequence
  • MPEG Transport Stream data
  • MPEG-21
  • MPEG-4
  • MPEG-PS container with CDXA stream
  • MS Visio 2013 stencil Macro format
  • MS Visio 2013 stencil format
  • MS Visio 2013 template Macro format
  • MS Visio 2013 template format
  • Mac Disk Copy Disk Image File
  • Mac PICT
  • MacBinary
  • MacPaint (PNTG)
  • MacWrite
  • Macromedia Director
  • Macromedia Flash
  • Magick Image File
  • Makefile
  • Maker Markup Language
  • Matroska video File
  • MediaWiki File
  • MicroStation V8 DGN (OLE)
  • Micrografx Designer 
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft Backup
  • Microsoft Cabinet
  • Microsoft DirectDraw Surface container
  • Microsoft Document Imaging Format
  • Microsoft Entourage Database Format
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Excel Macro
  • Microsoft Exchange Server Database file format
  • Microsoft Help 2.0
  • Microsoft MS-DOS installation compression (SZDD, KWAJ)
  • Microsoft Office Drawing
  • Microsoft Office Groove Format
  • Microsoft OneNote
  • Microsoft Outlook (MSG, PST)
  • Microsoft Outlook Express (EML)
  • Microsoft Outlook Express DBX
  • Microsoft Outlook OST
  • Microsoft Outlook Restricted Permission Message
  • Microsoft Outlook for Macintosh format
  • Microsoft Outlook iCalendar file format
  • Microsoft Outlook vCard file format
  • Microsoft Power BI Desktop
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Program Database
  • Microsoft Project
  • Microsoft Publisher
  • Microsoft RTF
  • Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Microsoft Windows Icon Format (ICO) Graphics
  • Microsoft Windows Imaging Format WIM
  • Microsoft Windows Metafile (WMF)
  • Microsoft Windows NT Event Log
  • Microsoft Windows Registry
  • Microsoft Windows Vista Event Log
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Word 2007 XML - Flat xml
  • Microsoft Word for PC Glossary
  • Microsoft Works
  • Microsoft Works Communication
  • Microsoft Works Database
  • Microsoft Works Spreadsheet
  • Microsoft Write
  • Microsoft XPS
  • Milestone Document
  • Mobile QuickTime video
  • Motion JPEG 2000
  • Mozilla XUL Fastload
  • MultiMate 4.0
  • MultiMate Advantage
  • MultiMate Advantage Footnote File
  • MultiMate Advantage II
  • MultiMate Advantage II Footnote File
  • MultiMate Footnote File
  • Multiplan Spreadsheet
  • Multiple-image Network Graphics
  • Musepack audio
  • MySQL table definition file
  • NBI Async Archive Format
  • NBI Net Archive Format
  • NIOS TOP
  • NIST Speech Header Resources
  • NOFF 3D Object File
  • NTT MPEG-4
  • NTT TwinVQ audio
  • NURSTOR Drawing
  • Nastran OP2
  • National Instruments LabVIEW file
  • Navy DIF
  • NeWS bitmap font
  • NeXT/Sun Audio Data
  • Nero AAC audio
  • Nero Encrypted File
  • Nero MPEG-4 profile
  • Nero MPEG-4 profile with AVC extension
  • Netscape Address Book
  • Netscape Bookmark File
  • Netware Loadable Module
  • Notation Interchange File
  • Novell Corel WordPerfect
  • Nurstor Drawing
  • ODA / ODIF
  • ODF Drawing
  • ODF Formula
  • OLE Compound Document
  • OLE DIB object
  • OLIDIF (Olivetti)
  • OMA DRM (ISOBMFF) Format
  • OS/2 PM Metafile Graphics
  • Oasis Open Document Presentation
  • Oasis Open Document Spreadsheet
  • Oasis Open Document Text
  • Oasys
  • Objective-C Source Code
  • Objective-C++ Source Code
  • Objective-J Source Code
  • Office 2007 document
  • Office Writer
  • Ogg Container FLAC audio
  • Ogg OGM video
  • Ogg Opus audio
  • Ogg Speex audio
  • Ogg Theora Video
  • Omni Graffle XML File
  • Omni Outliner
  • Open Inventor ASCII
  • Open Inventor Binary
  • OpenEXR image
  • OpenPGP Message Format
  • OpenType Font
  • Origin Wing Commander III MVE movie
  • Outlook Express DBX folder database
  • PAK/ARC Archive
  • PC PaintBrush (PCX)
  • PCD Format
  • PEM-encoded RSA private key
  • PEM-encoded SSL certificate
  • PEX Binary Archive (SUN)
  • PGP Encrypted
  • PHP Source Code
  • PKCS #12 (p12) format
  • PLSQL Source Code
  • PRIMEWORD
  • PTC Creo CAD
  • PaintShop Pro image
  • Panasonic Digital Camera image
  • PaperPort image file
  • Paradox (PC) Database
  • Pascal Source Code
  • Password-Protected ZIP Archive
  • PeachCalc
  • Perl Source Code
  • Persuasion Presentation
  • Philips Script
  • Pixar RenderMan Interface Bytestream file
  • PlanPerfect
  • Portable Greymap Utilities ASCII Format 
  • Portable Greymap Utilities Binary Format
  • Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
  • Portable Pixmap Utilities ASCII Format
  • Portable Pixmap Utilities Binary Format
  • PostScript File
  • PostScript Type 1 Font
  • PowerISO Direct Access Archive
  • PowerShell Source Code
  • Program Information File (PIF)
  • Prolog Source Code
  • Puppet Source Code
  • Python Source Code
  • Q & A for DOS
  • Q & A for Windows
  • Q-One V1.93J
  • Q-One V2.0
  • Qt binary translation file
  • Qualcomm QCP audio
  • QuarkXPress
  • QuarkXPress Intel
  • QuickTime Movie
  • Quickdraw 3D Metafile
  • R Source Code
  • RAR Archive
  • RAR5
  • RIFF Multimedia Movie
  • RMS Encrypted Microsoft Excel
  • RMS Encrypted Microsoft PowerPoint
  • RMS Encrypted Microsoft Word
  • RPM Package Manager file
  • RealAudio
  • RealLegal E-Transcript File
  • RealMedia
  • Reflex
  • Ross video
  • Ruby Source Code
  • Rust Source Code
  • SAMNA Word
  • SAP compression archive SAR
  • SAS7BDAT database storage
  • SDA SD Memory Card video
  • SEG-Y Seismic Data format
  • SGI Image
  • SGML document
  • SMTP Document
  • SQLite database
  • SUN vfont Definition
  • SYLK Spreadsheet
  • Samsung Electronics Jungum Global document
  • Samsung stereoscopic stream
  • Scala Source Code
  • Scalable Vector Graphics image
  • Sega FILM video
  • Serialized Object Format (SOF)
  • Shapefile
  • Shapefile binary spatial index
  • Shell Source Code
  • Simple Vector format (SVF)
  • Skype Log File
  • Smalltalk Source Code
  • SmartWare II
  • Solid Works Drawing
  • Sony PSP MPEG-4
  • Sony Wave64 format
  • Sony XAVC video
  • SoundFont file
  • Speedo Font
  • Standard ML Source Code
  • Star Office 4,5 Calc Spreadsheet
  • Star Office 4,5 Impress Presentation
  • Star Office 4,5 Math
  • Star Office 4,5 Writer Text
  • StarOffice Presentation XML
  • StarOffice Spreadsheet XML
  • StarOffice Text XML
  • Steinberg CuBase file
  • StuffIt Archive
  • Subversion Dump
  • Sun Raster
  • Supercalc
  • Swift Source Code
  • Symphony
  • Synthetic music Mobile Application 
  • TAR Archive
  • TCPdump packet stream capture savefile f
  • TIFF
  • Tableau Data Source
  • Tableau Extract
  • Tableau Map Source
  • Tableau Packaged Data Source
  • Tableau Packaged Workbook
  • Tableau Preferences
  • Tableau Workbook
  • Targon Word
  • TeX Typesetting File
  • Tool Command Language (Tcl) Source Code
  • Transmission Neutral Encapsulation (TNEF)
  • True Audio
  • TrueType Font
  • TrueType font collection
  • Truevision Targa
  • TypeScript Source Code
  • UGS Jupiter Tesselation file
  • USENET
  • UU Encoded
  • UltraCalc
  • Unicode Text
  • Unigraphics (UG) NX CAD Format
  • Uniplex
  • Uniplex Ucalc
  • Universal 3D file
  • Unix Compress Encapsulation
  • Unix SHAR Encapsulation
  • Unknown
  • Unknown Encrypted File
  • VICAR image format
  • VMware Virtual Disk Format 5.0
  • VRML
  • Vector CAD ASCII ASC
  • Vector Open Diagnostic Data Exchange
  • Verilog Source Code
  • Video for Windows
  • Vistaword
  • Visualization Toolkit VTK ASCII
  • Visualization Toolkit VTK Binary
  • Vivo audio-video
  • Volkswriter
  • WANG Office GDL Header
  • WANG PC
  • WANG WITA
  • WANG WPS
  • WAV Sound
  • WPS-PLUS
  • Web ARChive
  • Web Open Font
  • WebM video file
  • WebP image
  • Westwood Studios Vector Quantized Animation video file
  • Wildfire YAFA animation
  • Window Media Video Format (WMV)
  • Windows Animated Cursor
  • Windows C++ Object Storage
  • Windows Cursor
  • Windows Group
  • Windows Help File
  • Windows Journal format
  • Windows Media Audio
  • Windows Media File
  • Windows Micrografx Draw (DRW)
  • Windows Palette
  • Windows Scrap
  • Windows Script File
  • Windows Television DVR
  • Windows shortcut file
  • Wireless Markup Language
  • Wolfram Mathematica Computable Document
  • Wolfram Mathematica Notebook
  • Wolfram Mathematica Source Code
  • Word Connection
  • WordERA
  • WordMARC
  • WordPerfect Configuration File
  • WordPerfect Driver
  • WordPerfect Graphics
  • WordPerfect Hyphenation Dictionary
  • WordPerfect Macro
  • WordPerfect Miscellaneous File
  • WordPerfect Resource File
  • WordPerfect Spelling Dictionary
  • WordPerfect Thesaurus
  • WordPerfect auxiliary file
  • WordStar
  • WriteNow
  • X Pixmap Format
  • X Window Dump image
  • X11 Portable Compiled Font file
  • XFDL
  • XPConnect Typelib 
  • XZ archive format
  • Xara X Xar image
  • Xerox 860
  • Xerox DocuWorks
  • Xerox Writer
  • Xiph Ogg Vorbis
  • Xiph Ogg Vorbis format
  • XyWrite
  • Y Encoded
  • YAML File
  • Yahoo Instant Messenger History
  • Yahoo! Messenger chat log
  • ZBrush ZProject (ZPR)
  • ZBrush ZTtool (ZTL)
  • ZIP Archive
  • Zipped Keyhole Markup Language
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