# Extensions

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By default Agent Ransack opens files in their raw binary format. While this works well for text based formats other formats, such as ZIP files or MS Office files, do not work as well. Extensions help Agent Ransack in processing non-text based formats so that their underlying data is correctly retrieved and searched.

Extensions are organized by:

•IFilters - filters based around Microsoft's indexing service filter specification.

•UTF-8 Default Format - file types that should, by default, be treated as UTF-8.

•Compressed Document Formats - file types that are stored as ZIP files.

•Application Extensions - filters based around Mythicsoft's in house filter specification.

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