The following chart shows the file formats that we support when generating viewable renditions or indexing for full-text search.

Format Name Extensions Rendition Full-Text Search Notes
Adobe Encapsulated PostScript *.eps Yes Yes  
Adobe Illustrator *.ai Yes Yes  
Adobe InDesign (V19 or earlier) *.indd Yes No  
Adobe InDesign Package *.zip Yes No See InDesign Package rendering and auto-linked InDesign documents.
Adobe Photoshop *.psd Yes Yes  
AV1 Image File Format *.avif Yes Yes Animated AVIF files are rendered as videos.
Bitmap *.bmp Yes Yes Full-text search is available if OCR can detect typed text in the image file.
Data *.cov, *.ext, *.inp, *.lst, *.op, *.param, *.r, *.sas, *.scm, *.jsl, *.ssc, *.sbml Yes Yes Vault will not extract metadata from *.sbml files.
Electronic Mail File *.eml Yes Yes See email rendering.
Graphics Interchange Format *.gif Yes Yes Vault renders animated GIF images as videos that you can view and annotate. See About Video Playback. Full-text search is available if OCR can detect typed text in the image file.
High-efficiency Image File *.heif, *.heic Yes Yes Vault renders animated HEIF images as videos that you can view and annotate. See About Video Playback. Full-text search is available if OCR can detect typed text in the image file.
HyperText Markup Language *.html, *.htm Yes Yes  
JPEG *.jpg, *.jpeg Yes Yes Full-text search is available if OCR can detect typed text in the image file.
Microsoft Excel Workbook *.xls, *.xlsx Yes Yes  
Microsoft Office Data Connection *.odc Yes No  
Microsoft Outlook Mail Message *.msg Yes Yes See email rendering.
Microsoft Powerpoint Presentations *.ppt, *.pptx Yes Yes  
Microsoft Word Documents *.doc, *.docx, *.docm, *.dotm, *.dot, *.dotx Yes Yes  
Portable Document Format *.pdf Yes Yes Full-text search is only available if the PDF is text-based or if OCR can detect text in an image-based PDF. Learn more about PDF source files.
Portable Document Format Portfolio *.pdf No No  
Portable Network Graphics *.png Yes Yes Full-text search is only available if OCR can detect typed text in the image file.
RAW Image *.raw No No  
Rich Text Files *.rtf Yes Yes Rich text files must be under 512MB in size. Merge fields, named destinations, and other Microsoft Word rendition settings are not supported for RTF renditions.
Shell Script *.bash, *.csh, *.sh Yes Yes  
Scalable Vector Graphics *.svg Yes Yes Vault does not support animated SVG files.
Tagged Image File Format *.tif, *.tiff Yes Yes JPEG compression is not supported at this time. Full-text search is available if OCR can detect typed text in the image file.
Text *.txt, *.csv Yes Yes  
WebP *.webp Yes Yes Animated WebP files are rendered as videos.
XML (Extensible Markup Language) *.xml Yes Yes  
Hangul Word Processor (HWP) *.hwp Yes Yes See About Viewable Renditions for Hangul Word Processor.
ZIP Archive Format *.zip No No When using CLM Integration, Vault can automatically extract certain files and then generate a viewable rendition.

Notes

  • There are other formats not listed here that may work, but results may vary.
  • Vault does not make any changes to files once uploaded except in cases where the file utilizes a feature such as Merge Fields.
  • Vault may fail to render Microsoft 365 files containing macros.
  • Vault does not recommend embedding files within Microsoft Word source files. Although Vault may be able to render these in some cases, embedded files violate best practices for validation.
  • Vault may not render multiple-page files with more than 4000 pages.

Video Files

See About Video Playback for details on supported video formats.

Audio Files

See About Audio Playback for details on supported audio formats.