Searchable File Types

This page provides a list of the file types that can be searched by content in Squirro, and also which file types can be searched by title and opened using a program outside of Squirro.

Content Searchable File Types

The following table lists the file types that can be searched by their content once indexed in Squirro:

• .CSV

• .DOC, .DOCX

• .DOT, .DOTX

• .EML

• .EPUB

• .HTML

• .JSON

• .MSG

• .ODP, .ODS, .ODT

• .PDF

• .PPT, .PPTX

• .RTF

• .TXT

• .TSV

• .XLS, .XLSX, .XLSM, .XLM, .XLSB

File Title Search

Squirro uses the Apache Tika library to search document titles.

Reference: Learn more about Tika 2.7.0. Supported Document Formats.

Note

The majority of these file types can be made content searchable by updating the convert.ini file.

The table below provides a list of document types that can be searched by their title in Squirro:

Category	Title Searchable File Extensions
Apple Files	.applefile, .bplist, .bplist-itunes, .bplist-memgraph, .bplist-webarchive, .plist
Archive & Compression	.7z, .arj, .brotli, .bzip, .bzip2, .cpio, .gzip, .lz4, .lzma, .snappy, .tar, .x-arj, .x-archive, .x-bzip, .x-bzip2, .x-compress, .x-cpio, .x-gzip, .x-java-pack200, .x-lz4, .x-lzma, .x-snappy, .x-tar, .x-tika-unix-dump, .x-xz, .x-zlib, .xz, .zip
Audio Files	.aiff, .flac, .midi, .mp3, .ogg, .opus, .speex, .wav
Code Files	.cpp, .gro, .java
CSV & Text	.csv, .plain, .tsv
Database Files	.dbf, .mdb, .pst
Document Files	.doc, .docm, .docx, .dotm, .dotx, .hwp, .mif, .odt, .pdf, .rtf, .sxw, .wp, .wp5, .wp6, .wpd, .wps, .xwp
Drawing Files	.dgn, .dwg, .vsd, .vsdm, .vsdx
eBook Files	.epub, .fb2, .ibooks
Executable Files	.coredump, .elf, .exe, .msi, .object, .sharedlib
Feed Files	.atom, .rss
Font Files	.afm, .ttf
HTML & Web	.asp, .html, .xhtml, .xht
Image Files	.bmp, .bpg, .gif, .heic, .heif, .icns, .ico, .jbig2, .jpeg, .jpg, .jp2, .jpx, .png, .psd, .svg, .tiff, .webp, .wmf, .xcf
iWork Files	.key, .keynote, .numbers, .pages
Mail Files	.eml, .mbox
Microsoft Office	.dot, .pot, .ppt, .sldworks, .vsdx, .xls, .xlt
Multimedia Files	.3gp, .3gpp, .3gpp2, .flv, .m4v, .mp4, .ogg, .ogv, .quicktime, .webm
Package Files	.apk, .deb, .jar, .rpm