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Supported file types in eDiscovery (Premium)

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium) supports many file types at many different levels. The following tables in this article list the currently supported files types.

These tables indicate if a file type is supported for text extraction (and Optical Character Recognition or OCR text extraction for image files), viewable in the native viewer, and also supported in the Annotate viewer in eDiscovery (Premium).

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Archive / Container


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Container extraction Possible Extensions
application/x-7z-compressed Yes Yes Yes .7z
application/x-rar-compressed Yes Yes Yes .rar1
application/x-tar Yes Yes Yes .tar
application/zip Yes Yes Yes .zip

Note

1 Version 5 .rar files aren't currently supported.

Audio / Video


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
application/mp4 Yes Yes No Yes No .f4v; .m4a; .m4v; .mp4; .mp4v; .mpeg; .mpeg4
audio/mpeg Yes Yes No Yes No .mpeg
video/3gpp Yes Yes No Yes No .3gp
video/3gpp2 Yes Yes No Yes No .3g2; .3gp2
video/quicktime Yes Yes No Yes No .moov; .mov; .qt
video/x-m4v Yes Yes No Yes No .m4v

Database


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
application/x-msaccess Yes Yes Yes No No .mdb

Email


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
application/vnd.ms-outlook Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .msg
message/rfc822 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .eml
text/vcard-contact Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .vcf

Email Container


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Container extraction Possible Extensions
application/mbox Yes Yes Yes .mbox
application/vnd.ms-outlook-pst Yes Yes Yes .pst

HTML


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
application/xhtml+xml Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .xhtml
application/xml Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .xml
text/html Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .htm; .html; .shtml

Image


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction OCR text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
image/bmp Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .bmp
image/emf Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .emf
image/gif Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .gif
image/jpeg Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .jpeg; .jpg
image/png Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .png
image/svg+xml Yes Yes Yes Yes No .svg
image/tiff Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .tif
image/vnd.dwg Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .dwg; .dxf
image/wmf Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .wmf

Microsoft Excel


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
application/vnd.ms-excel Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .dat; .xls
application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroenabled.12 Yes Yes Yes Yes No .xlsb
application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroenabled.12 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .xlsm
application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroenabled.12 Yes Yes Yes No No .xltm
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .xlsx
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .xltx

Microsoft OneNote


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
application/onenote Yes Yes Yes No No .one

Microsoft PowerPoint


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .pot; .pps; .ppt
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .pptx
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .ppsx
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .potx

Microsoft Project


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
application/vnd.ms-project Yes Yes Yes No Yes .mpp

Microsoft Publisher


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
application/x-mspublisher Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .pub

Microsoft Visio


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
application/vnd.ms-visio.drawing Yes Yes Yes Yes No
application/vnd.visio Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .vsd

Microsoft Word


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
application/msword Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .dat; .doc
application/rtf Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .doc; .rtf
application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroenabled.12 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .docm
application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroenabled.12 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .dotm
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .docx
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .dotx

Microsoft Works


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
application/vnd.ms-works-ss Yes Yes No No No .wps
application/vnd.ms-works-wp Yes Yes No No No .wps

Open Document Format


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .odt

Other


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
application/json Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes n/a
application/octet-stream Yes No No No No .fluid
application/vnd.ms-graph Yes Yes No No No
application/winhlp Yes Yes No No No .hlp
application/x-tnef Yes Yes No No No

Plain Text


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
text/csv Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .csv
text/plain Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .con; .css; .csv; .dat; .pl; .txt

Portable Document Format


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
application/pdf Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes .pdf

Word Perfect


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
application/vnd.wordperfect; version=5.0 Yes Yes Yes No No .wpd
application/vnd.wordperfect; version=5.1 Yes Yes Yes No No .wpd
application/vnd.wordperfect; version=6.x Yes Yes Yes No No .wpd

Word Pro


Mime type File identification Metadata extraction Text extraction Native viewer Annotate viewer Possible Extensions
application/vnd.lotus-wordpro Yes Yes No No No .lwp