Fact sheet

Crawlers

The ES can crawl data from Intranets, Windows file shares, Exchange, SharePoint, local files and many databases.

Supported file formats

The ES support most common enterprise file type like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF.

Full list of supported file endings:

.abw
.ai *
.bmp *
.doc
.doc
.docm
.docx
.dot
.dotm
.dotx
.dwg
.eml
.eps *
.gif *
.jpg *
.mp3 *
.msg
.pdf
.pdf
.png *
.pot
.potm
.potx
.ppam
.ppsm
.ppsx
.ppt
.pptm
.pptx
.rtf
.sdw
.sldx
.tif *
.tiff *
.txt
.wpd
.wpf
.xlam
.xls
.xlsb
.xlsm
.xlsx
.xltm
.xltx
.zip

*: The file name and metadata like Exif and ID3 will be searchable.

Thumbnail

The ES can create thumbnail images of files with the following endings:

.png
.jpg
.jpeg
.bmp
.tif
.tiff
.gif
.eps
.ai