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.
Supported file formats
Microsoft Office
- 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.
Open Office
- ODT
- ODP
Text
- TXT
- RTF
Hypertext, source code
- HTML
- XHTML
- PHP
Bilingual interchange formats
- XLIFF (XLF) 1.2 and 2.0
- SDLXLIFF
- MQXLIFF
- SDLXLIFF
- XLIFF files from Articulate Rise 360
- PO
- TTX
Desktop publishing
- MIF
- IDML (Adobe Indesign)
Technical writing
- DITA XML
- HELP+MANUAL XML
Localization
- XML
- Android XML
- RESX
- DTD
- JSON
- TJSON
- YML
- INC
- INX
- MIF
- STRINGS
- PROPERTIES
Video file formats
- mp4
- mpeg
- avi
- mov
- 3gp
- 3g2
- flv
- m2v
- m4v
- mkv
- mpg
- ogv
- qt
- ts
- vob
- wmv
Audio file formats
- mp3
- wa
- wma
- mp2
- ogg
- aac
- flac
- m2a
Subtitle file formats
- SRT
- VTT
Images (powered by OCR)
- JPG/JPEG
- TIF/TIFF
- BMP
- PNG
- GIF
- DJVU/DJV
- DCX
- PCX
- JP2
- JPC
- JFIF
- JB2
11. Packages
- TTX
- SDLPPX / SDLRPX
- ZIP
- WSXZ
Unsupported file formats
- CSV
- FM
- AI (Adobe Illustrator)
- INDD but you can upload an IDML file instead
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.
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