Any file type can be stored in Elvis. However, for commonly used types Elvis creates thumbnails and previews. Additionally the server extracts and embeds metadata within the files. The following table shows the common file types supported.
Image Files
Standard file types
Type | Thumbnail |
Preview (as various-size jpeg) |
Extract Metadata | Embed Metadata 1 |
---|---|---|---|---|
ai 2 | x | x | x | x |
bmp | x | x | x | |
eps 2 | x | x | x | x |
gif |
x | x | x | x |
jpeg |
x | x | x | x |
png |
x | x | x | x |
psb 3 | x | x | x | x |
psd |
x | x | x | x |
svg 4 | x | x | x | |
tiff |
x | x | x | x |
tga |
x | x | x | x |
1 Not all file types support embedding of all types of metadata fields, for example PNG files have very limited support for metadata embedding and some older EPS files have no support for metadata embedding because they were saved in a Postscript only structure.
2 Only supported on Linux and Mac OS X (processing) server.
3 (Requires Elvis Server 4.6.12 or higher) By default Elvis will try to extract the embedded thumbnail from the xmp-metadata of the PSB file.
#
# Set to true to enable preview generation of PSB
# PSB processing requires a lot of disk space
# have at least 300 gigabyte disk space available on all processing server
#
# When set to false the embedded thumbnail will be extracted instead
#
psbProcessingEnabled=false
Note: Processing (mulitple) PSB files requires a lot of disk space: depending on the file size it may take between 5 to 30 minutes. We advise to have at least 300 GB of disk space available on all Processing Servers.
4 Requires Elvis 4.6.11 or higher.
RAW camera files
Type | Thumbnail |
Preview (as various-size jpeg) |
Extract Metadata | Embed Metadata |
---|---|---|---|---|
3fr | x | x | x | x |
arw | x | x | x | x |
crw | x | x | x | x |
cr2 | x | x | x | x |
dcr | x | x | x | x |
dng | x | x | x | x |
erf | x | x | x | x |
iig | x | x | x | x |
kdc | x | x | x | x |
mrw | x | x | x | x |
nef | x | x | x | x |
nrw | x | x | x | x |
orf | x | x | x | x |
pef | x | x | x | x |
raf | x | x | x | x |
raw | x | x | x | x |
rw2 | x | x | x | x |
sr2 | x | x | x | x |
srw | x | x | x | x |
x3f | x | x | x | x |
Video files
Type | Thumbnail |
Preview (as low-res flv or mp4) |
Extract Metadata | Embed Metadata |
---|---|---|---|---|
3gp | x | x | x | |
3g2 | x | x | x | |
asf | x | x | x | |
avi | x | x | x | |
dv | x | x | x | |
f4v | x | x | x | |
flv | x | x | x | |
gxf | x | x | x | |
m4v | x | x | x | |
mj2 | x | x | x | |
mkv | x | x | x | |
mov | x | x | x | |
mp4 | x | x | x | |
mpeg | x | x | x | |
mxf | x | x | x | |
prores | x | x | x | |
qt | x | x | x | |
rm | x | x | x | |
vc1 | x | x | x | |
vob | x | x | x | |
wmv | x | x | x |
Audio files
Type | Thumbnail |
Preview (as low-quality flv) |
Extract Metadata | Embed Metadata |
---|---|---|---|---|
aac | x | x | ||
aiff | x | x | ||
amr | x | x | ||
m4a | x | x | ||
mp3 | x | x | ||
ogg | x | x | ||
wav | x | x | ||
wma | x | x |
Document files
For common document formats Elvis extracts text content allowing you to search for any text contained in the file.
Standard file types
Type | Thumbnail |
Preview |
Extract Metadata | Embed Metadata | Extract text content |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
x | As various-size jpeg | x | x | x | |
ps | x | As various-size jpeg | x | x | x |
rtf | x | As HTML | x | x | |
txt | x | As HTML | x |
InDesign 1 / InCopy file types
Type | Thumbnail |
Preview (as HTML) |
Extract Metadata | Embed Metadata | Extract text content |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
indd | x | x | x | x | 2 |
icml | x | x | x | x | |
incx | x | x | x | x | |
wcml | x | x | x | x | |
wwcx | x | x | x | x | x |
idms 3 | x | x | x | x | x |
1 Only supported on Linux and Mac OS X (processing) server.
2 Text extraction is not supported for InDesign. Instead, a PDF of the page is automatically linked to the InDesign document. The text of the PDF is fully searchable.
3 Requires Elvis 4.6.11 or higher.
Tip: InDesign previews can be improved in the InDesign application where the document was created or edited. In the InDesign preferences you can change the file handling to create higher quality previews (up to 1024 pixels) from 1, 2, 5 or all pages (depending on CS version). Elvis reads out these previews on import.
Word file types
Type | Thumbnail |
Preview (as HTML) |
Extract Metadata | Embed Metadata | Extract text content |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
doc | x | x | x | x | |
docx | x | x | x | x | |
dot | x | x | x | x | |
dotx | x | x | x | x |
Powerpoint file types
Type | Thumbnail |
Preview (as HTML) |
Extract Metadata | Embed Metadata | Extract text content |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ppt | x | x | x | x | |
pps | x | x | x | x | |
pptx | x | x | x | x |
Excel file types
Type | Thumbnail |
Preview (as HTML) |
Extract Metadata | Embed Metadata | Extract text content |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
xls | x | x | x | x | |
xlsx | x | x | x | x |
iWork file types 1
Type | Thumbnail |
Preview (as HTML) |
Extract Metadata | Embed Metadata | Extract text content |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
key | x | x | x | x | |
numbers | x | x | x | x | |
pages | x | x | x | x |
1 Only supported on Linux and Mac OS X (processing) server.
Web files
Type | Thumbnail |
Preview (as HTML) |
Extract Metadata | Embed Metadata | Extract text content |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
css | |||||
html | x | x | x | ||
js |
Flash files
Type | Thumbnail |
Preview |
Extract Metadata | Embed Metadata | Extract text content |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
as | |||||
fla | x | x | |||
swf | As original swf | x |
XML files
Type | Thumbnail |
Preview (as HTML) |
Extract Metadata | Embed Metadata | Extract text content |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
xml | x | x | x | x |
Archive files
Type | Thumbnail |
Preview (as HTML) |
Extract Metadata | Embed Metadata | Extract text content |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
7z | |||||
arj | |||||
bz2 | |||||
cab | |||||
gz | |||||
gzip | |||||
iso | |||||
jar | |||||
lha | |||||
rara | |||||
sit | |||||
tar | |||||
zip |
Comments
1 comment
In Elvis 4.6.x processing server node running on MacOS 10.7 (Lion) it has been found that TIFF file type processing using the internal/default ImageMagick processing tool is not working.
Possible solutions are:
add this (configured) line to the config.properties file:
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