Image and digital File Formats

- PixEdit® Desktop
- PixEdit® Converter Server
- PixEdit® Server
- PixView®
- PixJet® Virtual PDF Printer

Following is a listing of all scanned document, image file formats and digital formats supported by
our software. Note that the formats are supported differently in different products:

PixEdit® Desktop is generally able to read and write all formats. However, there are exceptions:
Some formats can only be read, and a few can only be written. This is noted in the Notes column.

PixEdit® Converter Server can read all readable formats and write to various types of PDF, PDF/A and
TIFF

PixEdit® Server can read all readable formats and write to various types of PDF, PDF/A and TIFF

PixView® can read all readable formats. It can also write to PDF or TIFF, but only if the document was
scanned directly into PixView.

PixJet® Virtual PDF Printer can write to all writeable image formats. However, it does not support
vector formats, such as DXF.

Common formats
Short name Description Notes File
R: Read only extension(s)
W: Write only

PDF Portable Document Format .pdf

As defined in the ISO Standard 32000-1:2008
Wikipedia

Versions:

PDF 1.0 R

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PDF 1.2 R

PDF 1.3 R

PDF 1.4

PDF 1.5

PDF 1.6

PDF 1.7

PDF/A Portable Document Format for Archiving .pdf

Wikipedia PDF specialized for digital preservation of electronic
documents

Versions:
PDF/A-1
ISO 19005-1, based on Adobe PDF 1.4

PDF/A-2 R*
ISO 19005-2, based on Adobe PDF 1.7 (ISO 32000-1)
*Writing and verifying documents in this format is
currently under development

PDF/A-3 R
ISO 19005-3, based on Adobe PDF 1.7 (ISO 32000-1)

TIFF Tagged Image File Format .tif

.tiff
Wikipedia
All versions supported, including the latest TIFF 6.0
Standard (1992)

JPEG Joint Photographer Expert Group .jpg

.jpeg
Wikipedia
.jpe
.jif
.jfif
.jfi

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PNG
Wikipedia *Alpha channel transparency is not supported

GIF .gif
Graphics Interchange Format
Wikipedia

BMP .bmp
Bitmap Image File
Wikipedia

Other formats in alphabetical order

Short name Description Note File
extension(s)

Alias Pix Alias Pix (Vivid) R .pix

ANA Tech .g4 .lrd

ANA Tech

Apollo HDRU Apollo HDRU .gn

AutoCAD AutoCAD Cadcamera .img

BOB BOB Raytracer Image R .bob

Brooktrout®Fax Brooktrout® Fax R .fax

CCRF Calcomp CCRF W .crf

.ccrf
.prn

Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle .cal

CALS Support
Wikipedia (United States Department of Defense)

Cineon Kodak Cineon R .cin

WIkipedia

DSI CImage DSI .dsi

CMU CMU Window Manager Bitmap .cmu

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DCX Multipage PCX .dcx

Wikipedia

DICOM R .dcm
Digital Imaging and Communications in
Wikipedia Medicine

DKB QRT Raytracer Image R .dis

Dr. Halo Dr. Halo II Cut Runlength R .cut

DXF AutoCAD DXF W* .dxf

Wikipedia
*DXF is a drawing (vector) format used by
many CAD applications. With PixEdit®
Desktop, you can vectorize a scanned

image, save it as a DXF file and then import

it in your CAD program. See the PixEdit®
User Manual for more information about
vectorizing.

EDMICS .c4
EDMICS United States Department of Defense

SCN Eldak SCN .scn

EPS Encapsulated PostScript W .eps

Wikipedia

Ericsson CALS Ericsson multi-page CALS R .cal

Facesaver Facesaver R .fac

FAX Generic Fax Format R .fax

FBM Fuzzy Bitmap R .fbm

FITS Flexible Image Transport System R .fts

Wikipedia

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GIMP Brush R .gbr

GNU Image Manipulation Program Brush
Wikipedia Bitmap

GIMP Pattern R .pat

GNU Image Manipulation Program Pattern
Wikipedia Bitmap

HF Rayshade HF Rayshade Height Field R .hf

HRF Hitachi Raster Format .hrf

HPGL Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language R, W* .hpg

.hpgl
Wikipedia
• HPGL .hpgl2
• HPGL/2 (command subset only)

*HPGL is a plotter (vector) format used by

many CAD programs. PixEdit® and PixView®
can read this file format and convert it to an
image file. PixEdit® Desktop can also
vectorize a scanned image and save it as a
HPGL file.

HSI .raw
Image Alchemy R

IOCA IBM Image Object Content Architecture * .ica

IBM Mixed Object:Document Content .ioca
MODCA Architecture .mca
(MO:DCA) .modca
Wikipedia *For writing, only CCITT G4 compression is
supported
IBM KIPS Bitmap R .kps
KIPS

IFF R .iff
Interchange File Format (ILBM
Wikipedia Color)

Image Software Image Software Set R .img

Set

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Intergraph Intergraph .bin

BIN, CIT, RLE9, TG4 .cit
.rle
.tg4

JEDMICS JEDMICS C4 Compressed Image File .c4

Joint Engineering Data Management
Information and Control System (United
States Department of Defense)

JTFax JTFax R .0??

VIFF Khoros VIFF R .vif

Koala Paint Koala Paint R .koa

Kodak DC120 Kodak DC120 Digital Camera R .kdc

Kodak DC25 Kodak DC25 Digital Camera R .k25

Kodak PCD Kodak PCD R .pcd

Laser Data Laser Data R .lda

Lotus Lotus Manuscript R .bit

Manuscript

PICT Macintosh PICT R .pct

Wikipedia

MacPaint MacPaint R .mac

MGR MGR .mgr

MSP Microsoft Paint R .msp

Wikipedia

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Eyestar
Wikipedia

MRF Marks Russel Image Format R .mrf

NeoChrome Atari NeoChrome R .neo

NIFF Navy Image File Format R .nif

.niff
CALS Raster Type 3

NIST National Institute of Technology ihdr R .pct

OCP Advanced Art Studio OCP R .ocp

OND Notis OND (Multipage TIFF) R .ond

P7 XV Thumbnail R .p7

PSP Paint Shop Pro 5 R .psp

Palm Pilot Palm Pilot Picture R .pdb

PBM UNIX Portable Bitmap .pbm

Wikipedia

PCL Hewlett-Packard Printer Control Language W .pcl

Wikipedia

PC Paint PC Paint Plus 2.0 R .pic

PCX .pcx
PC Paintbrush Bitmap
Wikipedia Personal Computer Exchange

PGM UNIX Portable Graymap R .pgm

Wikipedia

PPM UNIX Portable Pixmap .ppm

Wikipedia

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PFS First Publisher ART Image R .pfs

PSD Adobe Photoshop Document R .psd

Puzzle UNIX Puzzle Bitmap R .pzl

PWP 94 Seattle Filmworks Multi-Image R .pwp

QDV Random Dot Bitmap R .qdv

Ricoh IS30 Ricoh IS30 .pig

Ricoh J61 Ricoh J61 Digital Camera Image R .j61

RLC Intel type raster format .rlc

Scitex Scitex CT Image R* .sct

*Only Grayscale and 24-bpp CMYK

supported

SFW Seattle Filmworks Image R .sfw

SFW, SFW 94

SGI Silicon Graphics Image R .sgi

SmartFax SmartFax R .0??

SoftImage SoftImage R .pic

SriSun SriSun Graphic R .ssi

STAD Atari STAD Image R .pac

Sun Raster Bitmap Image R .ras

Sun Bitmap .rast

TAAC Sun TAAC R .vff

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Talaris Talaris R .tif

TARGA Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics

.tga
Wikipedia Adapter Bitmap

TealPaint TealPaint Multi-Page R .pdb

TDF Techsoft Document Format .tdf

IMG Uncompressed IMG * .img

*Read/write: Uncompressed, 4-byte or

6byte header
Write only: Uncompressed with no header

This format is implemented for test

purposes only – using this format is not
recommended

SCN Vidar SCN * .scn

*Read/Write: Standard type RLE, Version 1

VRLE, Version 1 CCITT G4 and
Uncompressed
Read only: Old type RLE

VORT VORT Raytracer R* .pix

*Alpha channel transparency is ignored

WBMP WAP BMP R .wbm

Windows MetafileCAD W .wmf

WMF, EMF Windows Enhanced Metafile .emf

Windows Windows Clipboard R .clp

Clipboard
WinFax R .wfx
WinFax

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WPG Word Perfect Graphics * .wpg

*Read/Write: Version 5.0 RLE

Read Only: Version 5.1: RLE

Xerox Print Xerox Print Format R* .img

*Only Black & White Type 0 is supported

XIM X11 Xim Toolkit Bitmap R* .xim

*Only version 3 with 8 or 24-bpp is

supported

SMP Xionics SMP * .smp

*Read/Write: Uncompressed, Packbits,

CCITT G4
Read Only: CCITT G3 1D, CCITT G3 2D

XWD X-Windows Dump X-11 * .xwd

*Read/Write: 1 bpp (monochrome) Read

Only: 4, 8, 24 and 32-bpp (alpha channel
is ignored)

ZX Spectrum ZX Spectrum Standard Screen R .scr

Note about multiple pages in scanned documents

Only two of the common file formats can contain more than one scanned page: PDF and TIFF. Of the
other formats, three can hold more than one page: MO:DCA, DCX and Ericsson CALS. All other
formats can only contain one image or page per file.

However, with PixEdit®, you can easily take a collection of for example JPEGs, with one single page
per file, and combine them into a PDF, where all those pages are contained in one single file.
Conveniently, the file names of the JPEGs are also made into bookmarks in the PDF. For more
information about combining single-page files to a multi-page document, please refer to the PixEdit®
User Guide.

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Digital formats
DOC Microsoft Word Document * R .doc

DOCX Microsoft Word Open XML Document * R .docx

DOT Word Document Template * R .dot

DOCM Word Open XML Macro-Enabled Document * R .docm

DOTM
Word Open XML Macro-Enabled Document * R .dotm

Word Open XML Document Template * R .dotx

DOTX

TXT Plain Text File * R .txt

MHTML Web Archive * R .mht

MHT

RTF Rich Text Format File * R .rtf

XML XML File * R .xml

KOF Koordinat- og Observasjonsformat for R .kof

Feltminner *

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DOK DesktopOK Icons Layout File * R .dok

WPS Kingsoft Writer Document * R .wps

ODT Open Document Format for Office R .odt

Applications *

ODP OpenDocument Presentation file * R .odp

ODS OpenDocument Spreadsheet * R .ods

HTM Hypertext Markup Language File * R .htm

HTML Hypertext Markup Language File * R .html

XLS Excel Spreadsheet * R .xls

XLSX Microsoft Excel Open XML Spreadsheet * R .xlsx

XLSB Excel Binary Spreadsheet * R .xlsb

XLTX Excel Open XML Spreadsheet Template * R .xltx

XLSM Excel Open XmL Macro-Enabled Spreadsheet R .xlsm

*

CSV Comma Separated Values File * R .csv

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PPT PowerPoint Presentation * R .ppt

PPTX PowerPoint Open XML Presentation * R .pptx

PPTM PowerPoint Open XML Macro-Enabled * R .pptm

PPS PowerPoint Slide Show * R .pps

PPSX PowerPoint Open XML Slide Show * R .ppsx

MSG Outlook Mail Message * R .msg

VCF vCard File * R .vcf

EML E-Mail Message * R .eml

PST Outlook Personal Information Store File * R .pst

PUB Publisher Document * R .pub

VSD Visio Drawing File * R .vsd

VSDX Visio Drawing * R .vsdx

MPP Microsoft Project File * R .mpp

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ZIP Zipped File * R .zip

DWG AutoCAD Drawing Database File ** R .dwg

XPS XML Paper Specification File R .xps

OXPS OpenXPS File R .oxps

* Will require a valid installation of MS Office

2010 or later to be able to read and convert
documents.
** Will require a valid installation of AutoCad
to be able to read and convert documents.

Resources
Wikipedia: Comparison of graphics file formats
Wikipedia: List of file formats

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