Supported document conversion formats
Tungsten Import Connector supports the following document formats for conversion with various third-party tools.
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Document formats |
Microsoft Office |
Apache OpenOffice / LibreOffice |
Total HTML ConverterX |
Tools embedded in Message Connector |
KFXConverter |
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Word documents 1,8 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Excel documents 1,8 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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PowerPoint documents 1,8 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Text documents (both attachments and email body) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Apache OpenOffice documents |
Yes |
Yes |
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HTML, MHT documents (both attachments and email body) 9 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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EML documents (email header embedded on the first page of email body) 6 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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MSG documents 4,6 |
Yes |
Yes |
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PST files 5 |
Yes |
Yes |
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Images (BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIF, HEIF, HEIC, JFIF) 2 |
Yes |
Yes |
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PDF documents, including portfolio PDFs 1,3 |
Yes |
Yes |
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compressed documents (ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZIP) 1 |
Yes |
Yes |
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XML documents 7 |
Yes |
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EDI documents (EDIFACT, X-12) 7 |
Yes |
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XML Paper Specification (XPS and OXPS) 8 |
Yes |
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VCF |
Yes |
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Does not support conversion of password-protected documents.
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Can convert images to resolutions of 200x200 DPI or 300x300 DPI; black & white, grayscale, or color.
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Conversion of PDF documents with XFA forms (Adobe XML Forms Architecture) created with Adobe LiveCycle Designer requires Adobe LiveCycle environment available via network.
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Does not support MSG documents for which attachments are removed by any Microsoft Outlook archiving function; they are treated as document conversion errors.
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Requires additional manual steps. See Capture Plug-In Help.
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For Folder import, the EML and MSG files are treated as messages that arrived via email. The metadata of the message (not the metadata of the file) is used.
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Conversion might require third-party tools during configuration or customization. However, tools are not require tools during operation.
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KFXConverter supports Microsoft Office 2016 to Microsoft Office 2021. It also supports the conversion of XPS format.
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For conversion using Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office must be installed on the computer where Message Connector is running.
Each conversion tool produces the output in a different way. As a result, switching to another conversion tool may change the look of your converted documents.
Attachment Encoding
Tungsten Import Connector understands attachments with the following Content-Transfer-Encoding types:
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Base64
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Quoted-printable
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Uuencode/x-uuencode