File formats supported in Smartcat

Smartcat supports a wide variety of bilingual and monolingual files. It detects each file’s format automatically.

Simply drag and drop your files or select them when creating a new translation task or project.

If your file format isn’t supported the error message will be displayed and the file won’t get uploaded.

• DOC/DOCX

• XLS/XLSX

• PPT/PPTX

• PPS/PPSX

• POT/POTX

• PPT

Please note that Microsoft Office formats are proprietary and complex. While we strive to provide as much compatibility as possible, some post-processing may be required for translated documents.

• ODT

• ODP

• TXT

• RTF

• HTML

• XHTML

• PHP

Bilingual interchange formats

• XLIFF (XLF) 1.2 and 2.0

• SDLXLIFF

• MQXLIFF

• SDLXLIFF

• XLIFF files from Articulate Rise 360

• PO

• TTX

• PDF

• MIF

• IDML (Adobe Indesign)

• DITA XML

• HELP+MANUAL XML

• XML

• Android XML

• RESX

• LOCJSON

• JSON

• TJSON

• YML

• INC

• INX

• MIF

• STRINGS

• PROPERTIES

• mp4

• mpeg

• avi

• mov

• 3gp

• 3g2

• flv

• m2v

• m4v

• mkv

• mpg

• ogv

• qt

• ts

• vob

• wmv

• mp3

• wa

• wma

• mp2

• ogg

• aac

• flac

• m2a

• SRT

• VTT

Images (powered by OCR)

• JPG/JPEG

• TIF/TIFF

• BMP

• PNG

• GIF

• DJVU/DJV

• DCX

• PCX

• JP2

• JPC

• JFIF

• JB2

 Packages

• TTX

• SDLPPX / SDLRPX

• ZIP

• WSXZ

Unsupported file formats

• CSV

• FM

• AI (Adobe Illustrator)

• INDD but you can upload an IDML file instead

• JS

To help you avoid security risks, certain files, such as executable files and scripts, are also restricted from being uploaded.

Smartcat blocks files with the following extensions from being uploaded:

ade, adp, apk, app, appx, appxbundle, asp, aspx, asx, bas, bat, cab, cer, chm, cmd, cnt, com, cpl, crt, csh, der, diagcab, dll, dmg, exe, fxp, gadget, grp, hlp, hpj, hta, htc, inf, ins, iso, isp, its, jar, jnlp, js, jse, ksh, lib, lnk, mad, maf, mag, mam, maq, mar, mas, mat, mau, mav, maw, mcf, mda, mdb, mde, mdt, mdw, mdz, msc, msh, msh1, msh1xml, msh2, msh2xml, mshxml, msi, msix, msixbundle, msp, mst, msu, nsh, ops, osd, pcd, pif, pl, plg, prf, prg, printerexport, ps1, ps1xml, ps2, ps2xml, psc1, psc2, psd1, psdm1, pst, py, pyc, pyo, pyw, pyz, pyzw, reg, scf, scr, sct, sh, shb, shs, sys, theme, tmp, url, vb, vbe, vbp, vbs, vhd, vhdx, vsmacros, vsw, vxd, webpnp, website, ws, wsc, wsf, wsh, xbap, xll, xnk.