| Description | Format Type | Extension | FDA Action Plan and Background Report | Production Date | Confidence Level | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PrimeOCR PRO Format | Application | .PRO | 05/07/2007 | Medium | ||
| Waveform Audio | Audio | .WAV, .WAVE | 11/01/2005 | See Notes | High: PCM Low: compressed | |
| Audio Interchange File Format | Audio | .AIF, .AIFF, .AIFC | Action Plan not implemented | See Notes | High: PCM Low: compressed | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| JPEG 2000 part 2, ISO/IED 15444-2 | Raster Image | .JPX, .JPF | 12/01/2005 | Low | ||
| JPEG File Interchange Format | Raster Image | .JPG, .JPEG | 12/22/2003 | Medium | ||
| 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. | |
| Document Type Definition (XML DTD 1.0) | Text | .DTD | 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 | |
| Extensible Markup Language | Text | .XML | 06/09/2003 | High | includes XSD/XSL/XHTML, etc.; with included or accessible schema and character encoding explicitly specified | |
| 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 |