Supported Formats & Types

File Types Supported

Documents

Text & Word Processors:

• .txt Plain text
• .md Markdown
• .docx Microsoft Word
• .doc Word 2003
• .pdf PDF documents
• .rtf Rich Text Format
• .odt OpenDocument Text

Spreadsheets:

• .xlsx Excel (Office Open XML)
• .xls Excel 97-2003
• .csv Comma-separated values
• .tsv Tab-separated values
• .ods OpenDocument Spreadsheet

Presentations:

• .pptx PowerPoint
• .ppt PowerPoint 97-2003
• .pdf (from presentations)

Media

Images:

• .jpg / .jpeg JPEG
• .png PNG
• .gif GIF (animated supported)
• .webp WebP
• .svg SVG vector graphics
• .bmp Bitmap

Audio:

• .mp3 MPEG-3 audio (transcription available)
• .wav WAV audio
• .m4a MPEG-4 audio
• .ogg Ogg Vorbis

Video:

• .mp4 MPEG-4 video (metadata extraction)
• .avi Audio Video Interleave
• .mov QuickTime
• .webm WebM format
• (Full video processing coming soon)

Code & Data

Programming:

• .js JavaScript
• .ts TypeScript
• .py Python
• .java Java
• .cpp / .c C++/C
• .cs C#
• .rb Ruby
• .go Go
• .rs Rust
• .php PHP
• .swift Swift
• And 50+ more languages

Data Formats:

• .json JSON
• .xml XML
• .yaml / .yml YAML
• .toml TOML
• .sql SQL
• .graphql GraphQL
• .proto Protocol Buffers

Archives

• .zip ZIP archive
• .rar RAR archive
• .7z 7-Zip
• .tar TAR
• .gz Gzip compressed

Email Formats

Email Addresses

Polaris AI accepts:

• Standard: user@example.com
• With dots: first.last@example.com
• With plus sign: user+tag@example.com
• With numbers: user123@example.com
• Subdomains: user@mail.company.com

Email Content

Supported:

• Plain text emails
• HTML formatted emails
• Rich text formatting
• Inline images
• Attachments (up to 25 MB total)
• Signatures

Supported Characters: UTF-8 (emojis, international characters, etc.)

Date & Time Formats

Date Input

Polaris AI understands:

• January 15, 2024
• 1/15/2024
• 2024-01-15
• 15 Jan 2024
• Next Monday
• Tomorrow
• In 3 days
• Last week

Time Input

All of these work:

• 2:30 PM
• 14:30
• 2:30 p.m.
• Morning (9 AM)
• Afternoon (2 PM)
• Evening (6 PM)
• Night (9 PM)

Timezone Formats

• EST / Eastern Standard Time
• PST / Pacific Standard Time
• UTC / GMT
• IST / Indian Standard Time
• Full timezone names supported

Duration Formats

• 30 minutes
• 1.5 hours
• 3 hours 45 minutes
• All day
• 2 hours

URL Formats

Polaris AI recognizes and validates:

• http://example.com
• https://example.com
• www.example.com
• example.com
• URLs with paths: /path/to/page
• URLs with params: ?key=value
• URLs with fragments: #section
• URL shorteners: bit.ly/abc123

Phone Number Formats

All accepted:

• (123) 456-7890
• 123-456-7890
• 123.456.7890
• 1234567890
• +1 123 456 7890
• International: +44 20 7946 0958

Text Encoding

Supported character sets:

• UTF-8 (recommended) - Full international support
• ASCII - Basic English
• Latin-1 - Western European
• Emoji and special characters supported

Color Formats

Recognized color inputs:

• Hex: #FF0000, #F00
• RGB: rgb(255, 0, 0)
• Named: red, blue, green
• HSL: hsl(0, 100%, 50%)

Number Formats

Accepted number formats:

• Integers: 42, -10, 0
• Decimals: 3.14, -2.5, .75
• Percentages: 50%, 25.5%
• Currency: $100, €50, ¥1000
• Scientific: 1.5e10, 2E-3
• Commas: 1,000,000

Data Size Units

Recognized units:

• Bytes: B
• Kilobytes: KB, KiB
• Megabytes: MB, MiB
• Gigabytes: GB, GiB
• Terabytes: TB, TiB

Example: 500 MB, 1.5 GB, 2048 MiB

Character & Symbol Support

Special characters:

• Punctuation: . , ! ? ; : - () [] {} " ' / \
• Math: + - * / = < > ≤ ≥ ± ÷ × √
• Currency: $ € £ ¥ ₹ ₽ ₩ ₪ ₦ ฿
• Arrows: ← → ↑ ↓ ↔ ↕ ⇐ ⇒

Spaces:

• Regular spaces
• Non-breaking spaces
• Tab characters
• Line breaks and paragraphs

Language Support

Polaris AI processes: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Turkish, and more.

CSV/Spreadsheet Formats

Delimiters Recognized

• Comma (,)
• Semicolon (;)
• Tab (\t)
• Pipe (|)
• Custom delimiters

Data Types

• Text/Strings
• Numbers (integers and decimals)
• Dates
• Boolean (TRUE/FALSE, yes/no)
• Currency
• Percentages
• Formulas (in Excel/Sheets)

Headers

• First row as headers (auto-detected)
• No headers (can specify)
• Multi-line headers

Document Structure Support

Markdown elements:

• Headings (# ## ###)
• Lists (ordered and unordered)
• Bold and italic
• Code blocks
• Links and images
• Tables
• Blockquotes

Word/PDF elements:

• Styles and formatting
• Headings and sections
• Tables
• Images
• Comments
• Tracked changes

API Request/Response Formats

• application/json
• application/x-www-form-urlencoded
• multipart/form-data
• application/xml
• Plain text

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