Supported formats for document conversion
Kofax Import Connector supports the following document formats for conversion with various third-party tools.
You cannot use MS Office, Open Office, or Total HTML Converter in an Azure environment.
Document formats |
Microsoft Office |
OpenOffice.org |
Total HTML ConverterX |
Third-party tools used in Document Converter |
KFXConverter |
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Word documents (DOC, DOCX, DOT, DOTM, DOTX, and DOCM)1, 9 |
Yes |
Yes (DOC and DOCX formats only) |
Yes |
Yes |
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Excel documents (XLS, XLSX, XLM, XLT, XLSM, XLTX, XLTM, XLSB, XLAM and CSV)1, 9 |
Yes |
Yes (XLS and XLSX formats only) |
Yes |
Yes |
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PowerPoint documents (PPT, PPTX, POT, PPTM, POTX, POTM, PPS, PPSX, PPSM, SLDX, and SLDM) 1, 4, 9 |
Yes |
Yes (PPT and PPTX formats only) |
Yes |
Yes |
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Text documents (both attachments and email body) (TXT, LOG, RTF, and XPS) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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OpenOffice documents (ODP, OTP, STI, SXI, ODG, OTG, STD, SXD, ODT, OTT, STW, SXW, ODS, OTS, STC, and SXC) |
Yes |
Yes (ODT, ODS, and ODP formats only) |
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HTML, MHT, HTM, MHTML documents (both attachments and email body) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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EML documents (email header embedded on the first page of email body) 7 |
Yes |
Yes |
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MSG documents 5, 7 |
Yes |
Yes |
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PST files 6 |
Yes |
Yes |
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Images (BMP, GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIF, HEIF, HEIC, JFIF, and TIFF) 2 |
Yes |
Yes |
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PDF including portfolio PDFs, XFA, and Acro forms 3, 10 |
Yes |
Yes |
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compressed documents (ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, and GZ) 1 |
Yes |
Yes |
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XML documents 8 |
Yes |
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XML Paper Specification (XPS) and OXPS9 |
Yes |
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VCF |
Yes |
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Conversion of password-protected documents is not supported.
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Images can be converted to the 200x200 dpi or 300x300 dpi resolutions; black & white, grayscale, or color.
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Conversion of PDF documents with XFA forms (Adobe XML Forms Architecture) created with Adobe Experience Manager Designer requires Adobe Experience Manager environment via network.
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Conversion of PowerPoint documents with the extension .ppsx is not supported via OpenOffice.org.
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MSG documents where attachments are removed by any Microsoft Outlook archiving function are not supported and they are treated as document conversion errors.
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Requires additional manual steps.
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For folder import only, EML and MSG files are treated as if the messages have arrived via email. The metadata of the message (and not the metadata of the file) is used.
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Conversion might require third-party tools during configuration or customization. The tools are not required during operation.
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KFXConverter supports conversion of Microsoft Office 2016 to Microsoft Office 2021 and Microsoft Office 365 documents. It also supports the conversion of XPS format.
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Conversion of password-protected PDF portfolio is not supported.
Each conversion tool produces the desired output in a different way. As a result, switching to another conversion tool may change the look of your converted documents.
Attachment Encoding
Kofax 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