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315 Extensions, No Conversion Step

A redaction tool that needs you to convert a file first has moved the work rather than removed it. The awkward formats are exactly the ones that arrive from a decommissioned camera system or a twenty-year-old archive.

What Format Support Covers

Content typeFormats
Image187
Document63
Video44
Miscellaneous13
Audio11
Total315 distinct extensions

Each format carries its MIME type, content-type classification, rendering engine and file signature.

How Format Support Works

Three rendering paths run underneath:

  1. The native pipeline for video, audio and web-native images
  2. ImageMagick for the long tail of raster formats, which is where most of the 187 image extensions live
  3. A document engine for office, CAD, email and page-description formats

Video and audio are transcoded to streaming renditions on ingest. Images and documents are rendered for in-browser viewing without the originating application, so a CAD file or an obscure raster format is reviewable by someone who does not have the software that made it.

DICOM is handled as medical imaging rather than as a generic image, preserving study and series structure. It has its own page.

Configuration

The accepted format list is managed per portal, alongside a separate restricted-extension blocklist that refuses types outright. A deployment that should never accept executables says so once.

Where It Matters

What Format Support Does Not Do

  • Support means ingest, store and serve. Transcoding, in-browser preview and AI eligibility are stated on the capability that performs the operation, not inherited from this list.
  • Upload types are governed per portal by the accepted list and the restricted-extension blocklist, so what a given deployment accepts may be narrower than what the platform supports.

How Format Support Is Evaluated

  • 315 distinct extensions across video, audio, image, document and miscellaneous types.
  • 187 image formats, which is the figure that separates a real format list from a marketing one.
  • Documents and images render in-browser without the originating application.
  • Upload types are governed per portal by an accepted list and a restricted-extension blocklist.

Check Your Awkward Format

Name the extension. We will tell you whether it ingests, previews and redacts, or only some of those.