| Description | Format Type | Extension | FDA Action Plan and Background Report | Production Date | Confidence Level | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BZIP2 Compressed Archive | Application | .BZ2, .TBZ2 |
none |
06/2006 | Medium | |
| GZIP Format | Application | .GZ, .TGZ |
none |
06/2006 | High | |
| PrimeOCR PRO Format | Application | .PRO | 05/07/2007 | Medium | ||
| PostScript | Application | .PS |
none |
06/2006 | Medium | |
| RAR format | Application | .RAR |
none |
06/2006 | Low | |
| ZIP format | Application | .ZIP |
none |
06/2006 | Medium | |
| Waveform Audio | Audio | .WAV, .WAVE | 11/01/2005 | See Notes | High: PCM Low: compressed | |
| MIDI Audio | Audio | .MID, .MIDI |
none |
06/2006 | Medium | |
| MPEG 1/2 Audio Layer 2 | Audio | .MP2 |
none |
06/2006 | Medium | |
| MPEG 1/2 Audio Layer 3 | Audio | .MP3 |
none |
06/2006 | Medium | |
| Audio Interchange File Format | Audio | .AIF, .AIFF, .AIFC | Action Plan not implemented | See Notes | High: PCM Low: compressed | |
| RealNetworks 'Real Audio' | Audio | .RA, .RM, .RAM |
none |
N/A | Low | |
| Windows Media Audio | Audio | .WMA |
none |
N/A | Low | |
| NeXT SND | Audio | .SND |
none |
N/A | Low | |
| SUN Audio (uncompressed) | Audio | .AU |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| Ogg Vorbis audio file format | Audio | .ogg |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| Free Lossless Audio Codec | Audio | .FLAC |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| Protected Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) | Audio | .M4P |
none |
N/A | Low | |
| Windows Executable | Computer Program | .EXE |
none |
06/2006 | Low | |
| Computer program source code | Computer Program | .C, .C++, .JAVA, .JS, .JSP, .PHP, .PL, etc. |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| Office Open XML (ISO/IEC DIS 29500) | Database | .XLSX |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| dBase file format | Database | .DBF |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| SQL Data Definition Language | Database | .DDL |
none |
N/A | High | |
| Miscrosoft Word File Format | Document | .DOC |
none |
06/2006 | Low | |
| Portable Document Format 1.2 | Document | 12/01/2005 | See Notes | Medium: embedded fonts Low: encrypted | ||
| Portable Document Format 1.3 | Document | 12/01/2005 | See Notes | Medium: embedded fonts Low: encrypted | ||
| PDF/A-1 (ISO 19005-1) | Document |
(Guidelines for Creating Archival Quality PDF Files) (PDF Normalization) |
N/A | High | This includes both PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-1b. PDF/A-1a is preferred over PDF/A-1b, but it may be difficult to generate for some users. | |
| Portable Document Format 1.4 | Document | 12/01/2005 | See Notes | Medium: embedded fonts Low: encrypted | ||
| Portable Document Format 1.5 | Document | 12/01/2005 | See Notes | Medium: embedded fonts Low: encrypted | ||
| Portable Document Format 1.6 | Document | 12/01/2005 | See Notes | Medium: embedded fonts Low: encrypted | ||
| Portable Document Format 1.7 | Document | 03/31/2008 | See Notes | Medium: embedded fonts Low: encrypted | ||
| Office Open XML (ISO/IEC DIS 29500) | Document | .DOCX |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| Device Independent Format (native format generated by LaTex application) | Document | .DVI |
none |
N/A | Low | |
| MS PowerPoint | Presentation | .PPT |
none |
N/A | Low | |
| OpenOffice | Presentation | .SXI, .ODP |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| Office Open XML (ISO/IEC DIS 29500) | Presentation | .PPTX |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| Tagged Image File Format (TIFF 6.0) | Raster Image | .TIF, .TIFF | 01/31/2003 | See Notes | High: uncompressed Medium: compressed Low: in Planar format | |
| JPEG 2000 part 1, ISO/IED 15444-1 | Raster Image | .JP2 | 11/07/2005 | See Notes | High: lossless Medium: lossy | |
| Device Independent Bitmap for Windows | Raster Image | .BMP |
none |
06/2006 | Medium | |
| Graphics Interchange Format | Raster Image | .GIF |
none |
06/2006 | Medium | |
| JPEG 2000 part 2, ISO/IED 15444-2 | Raster Image | .JPX, .JPF | 12/01/2005 | Low | ||
| Portable Bitmap (PBM) | Raster Image | .PGM |
none |
06/2006 | Low | |
| Portable Graymap (PGM) | Raster Image | .PGM |
none |
06/2006 | Low | |
| Portable Pixmap (PPM) | Raster Image | .PGM |
none |
06/2006 | Low | |
| RAW | Raster Image | varies |
none |
N/A | Low | |
| Portable Network Graphics | Raster Image | .PNG |
none |
06/2006 | High | |
| JPEG File Interchange Format | Raster Image | .JPG, .JPEG | 12/22/2003 | Medium | ||
| Digital Negative DNG | Raster Image | .DNG |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| MrSID | Raster Image | .SID |
none |
N/A | Low | |
| Kodak FlashPiX bitmap image | Raster Image | .FPX |
none |
N/A | Low | |
| Adobe PhotoShop file format | Raster Image | .PSD |
none |
N/A | Low | |
| Comma Separated Values | Spreadsheet | .CSV | 06/2006 | High | ||
| Binary Exchange File Format/ Microsoft Excel (BIFF8) | Spreadsheet | .XLS | Recognized: June 2006; Action Plan not implemented | Low | Action Plan is not implemented. | |
| Open Office | Spreadsheet | .SXW, .ODT |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| OpenOffice spreadsheet | Spreadsheet | .SCC, .ODS |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| Document Type Definition (XML DTD 1.0) | Text | .DTD | 06/2006 | Medium | ||
| Hypertext Markup Language | Text | .HTML, .HTM |
none |
06/2006 | Medium | |
| Rich Text Format | Text | .RTF |
none |
06/2006 | Medium | |
| Plain Text File | Text | .TXT | 03/19/2003 | See Notes | High: encoding: US-ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 with BOM; delimited text Medium: ISO 885901 encoding | |
| Cascading Style Sheets | Text | .CSS |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| Standard Generalized Markup Language | Text | .SGML |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| Extensible Markup Language | Text | .XML | 06/09/2003 | High | includes XSD/XSL/XHTML, etc.; with included or accessible schema and character encoding explicitly specified | |
| Computer Graphic Metafile (CGM, WebCGM) | Vector Graphics | .CGM |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| Scalable Vector Graphics file format | Vector Graphics | .SVG |
none |
N/A | High | |
| Encapsulated PostScript | Vector Graphics | varies |
none |
N/A | Low | |
| Macromedia Flash | Vector Graphics | .swf |
none |
N/A | Low | |
| Audio-video Interleaved File Format | Video | .AVI | 09/06/2005 | See Notes | High: AVI uncompressed, motion JPEG Low: AVI (others) | |
| Quicktime | Video | .MOV | 01/24/2006 | See Notes | High: uncompressed, motion JPEG Low: others | |
| MPEG-1/2 Video Format | Video | .MPG, .MPEG |
none |
06/2006 | Medium | |
| Motion JPEG 2000 (ISO/IEC 15444-4) | Video | .MJ2 |
none |
N/A | High | |
| Motion JPEG 2000 (ISO/IEC 15444-4) | Video | .MJ2 |
none |
N/A | High | |
| Ogg Theora | Video | .OGG |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| MPEG-1, MPEG-2 wrapped in AVI, MOV | Video | .MPG, .MPEG |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| MPEG-4 (H.263, H.264) | Video | .MP4 |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| RealNetworks 'Real Video' | Video | .RV |
none |
N/A | Low | |
| Windows Media Video | Video | .WMV |
none |
N/A | Low | |
| Virtual Reality Modeling Language | Virtual Reality | .WRL, .VRML |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| Universal 3D file format | Virtual Reality | .U3D |
none |
N/A | Medium | |
| Xara 3D Project file | Virtual Reality | .X3D |
none |
N/A | High |