Supported Formats for Native Review in e-Discovery

Lexbe.com supports a number of file formats for native review as part of the Lexbe.com litigation support application.  For files that include text in the file, this text is indexed into the application search engine for full-featured search and retrieval.

Supported Formats
Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf)
Ami Pro (*.sam)
Ansi Text (*.txt)
ASCII Text
ASF media files (metadata only indexed) (*.asf)
CSV (Comma-separated values) (*.csv)
DBF (*.dbf)
EBCDIC
EML files (emails saved by Outlook Express) (*.eml)
Enhanced Metafile Format (*.emf)
Eudora MBX message files (*.mbx)
GZIP (*.gz)
HTML (*.htm, *.html)
JPEG (*.jpg)
Lotus 1-2-3 (*.123, *.wk?)
MBOX email archives (including Thunderbird) (*.mbx)
MHT archives (HTML archives saved by Internet Explorer) (*.mht)
MIME messages MSG files (emails saved by Outlook) (*.msg)
Microsoft Access MDB files (*.mdb)
Microsoft Document Imaging (*.mdi)
Microsoft Excel (*.xls)
Microsoft Excel 2003 XML (*.xml)
Microsoft Excel 2007 (*.xlsx)
Microsoft Outlook/Exchange
Microsoft Outlook Express 5 and 6 (*.dbx) message stores
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 (*.pptx)
Microsoft Rich Text Format (*.rtf)
Microsoft Searchable Tiff (*.tiff)
Microsoft Word for DOS (*.doc)
Microsoft Word for Windows (*.doc)
Microsoft Word 2003 XML (*.xml)
Microsoft Word 2007 (*.docx)
Microsoft Works (*.wks)
MP3 (metadata only) (*.mp3)
Multimate Advantage II (*.dox)
Multimate version 4 (*.doc)
OpenOffice 2.x and 1.x documents, spreadsheets, and presentations (*.sxc, *.sxd, *.sxi, *.sxw, *.sxg, *.stc, *.sti, *.stw, *.stm, *.odt, *.ott, *.odg, *.otg, *.odp, *.otp, *.ods, *.ots, *.odf) (includes OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications)
Quattro Pro (*.wb1, *.wb2, *.wb3, *.qpw) TAR (*.tar)
TIFF (*.tif) TNEF (winmail.dat files)
Treepad HJT files (*.hjt)
Unicode (UCS16, Mac or Windows byte order, or UTF-8)
Windows Metafile Format (*.wmf) WMA media files (metadata only) (*.wma)
WMV video files (metadata only) (*.wmv)
WordPerfect 4.2  (*.wpd, *.wpf)
WordPerfect (5.0 and later) (*.wpd, *.wpf)
WordStar version 1, 2, 3 (*.ws)
WordStar versions 4, 5, 6 (*.ws)
WordStar 2000 Write (*.wri)
XBase (including FoxPro, dBase, and other XBase-compatible formats) (*.dbf)
XML (*.xml)
XML Paper Specification (*.xps) (version 7.40)
XSL XyWrite
ZIP (*.zip)

Image Format Notes
Lexbe.com supports the following image formats, but no text will be indexed (as none is included in the files) 
BMP
EPSF
GIF
IMG
JPEG
PCX
PNG
TIFF
Targa
WMF
WPG (WPG version 1.0 only)

If you wish to have text imaged from these image formats, we recommend converting the files to text under image PDFs so that the image will be retained and text available for indexing. 

If you have questions or needs for other formats, contact us at LexbeSupport.