This topic lists the image file formats that are supported by the Engine of the OmniPage Capture SDK v20. These may be for reading only, or for reading and writing. All image file formats listed here are associated with a Format ID constant (IMF_FORMAT enum).

Name	Format ID	Load	Save	Color	Compression	Multi-page	Notes
Tagged Image File Formats (TIFF)
Uncompressed TIFF	FF_TIFNO	Yes	Yes	B/W, 4-bit and 8-bit grayscale, 24-bit true-color, and 8-bit palette-color	Uncompressed (TIFF compression-tag = 1)	Yes	See Note #2 below
Group 3 Modified TIFF	FF_TIFHU	Yes	Yes	B/W	CCITT 1D (TIFF compression-tag = 2)	Yes
Standard G3 1D TIFF	FF_TIFG31	Yes	Yes	B/W	Group 3 Fax (TIFF compression-tag = 3)	Yes
Standard G3 2D TIFF	FF_TIFG32	Yes	Yes	B/W	Group 3 Fax (TIFF compression-tag = 3)	Yes
Standard G4 TIFF	FF_TIFG4	Yes	Yes	B/W	Group 4 Fax (TIFF compression-tag = 4)	Yes
TNT2 (JPEG-encoded TIFF)	FF_TIFJPGNEW	Yes	Yes	8-bit grayscale and 24-bit true-color	NEWJPEG (TIFF compression-tag = 7)	Yes	See Note #1 below
Packbits TIFF	FF_TIFPB	Yes	Yes	B/W, 4-bit and 8-bit grayscale, 24-bit true-color, and 8-bit palette-color	PackBits (TIFF compression-tag = 32773)	Yes	See Note #2 below
LZW-compressed TIFF	FF_TIFLZW	Yes	Yes	B/W, 4-bit and 8-bit grayscale, 24-bit true-color, and 8-bit palette-color	LZW	Yes	See Note #2 below
TIFF-FX format
TIFF-FX format	FF_XIFF	Yes	No	B/W, 4-bit and 8-bit grayscale, and 24-bit true-color		Yes	Supports Profiles M1, T, S, F, C images. See also Note #2 below
PCX / DCX
Single Page PCX	FF_PCX	Yes	Yes	B/W, 4-bit and 8-bit grayscale, 24-bit true-color, and 8-bit palette-color	ZSoft-proprietary	No	See Note #2 below
Multiple Page PCX (DCX)	FF_DCX	Yes	Yes	B/W, 4-bit and 8-bit grayscale, 24-bit true-color, and 8-bit palette-color	ZSoft-proprietary	Yes	See Note #2 below
Microsoft Windows bitmap format
Windows bitmap format without compression	FF_BMP_NO	Yes	Yes	B/W, 4-bit and 8-bit grayscale, 24-bit true-color, and 8-bit palette-color	None	No	See Note #2 below
Windows bitmap format with RLE8 compression	FF_BMP_RLE8	Yes	Yes	B/W, 4-bit and 8-bit grayscale, 24-bit true-color and 8-bit palette-color	RLE8	No	See Note #2 below
Windows bitmap format with RLE4 compression	FF_BMP_RLE4	Yes	No	B/W, 4-bit grayscale and 4-bit palette color	RLE4	No	See Note #2 below
JPEG formats
JPEG format with negligible information loss	FF_JPG_SUPERB	Yes	Yes	8-bit grayscale and 24-bit true-color	JPEG (Joint Photographics Experts Group compression)	No	See Note #3 below
JPEG format with average information loss	FF_JPG_GOOD	Yes	Yes	8-bit grayscale and 24-bit true-color	JPEG (Joint Photographics Experts Group compression)	No	See Note #3 below
JPEG format optimized for minimum image file size	FF_JPG_MIN	Yes	Yes	8-bit grayscale and 24-bit true-color	JPEG (Joint Photographics Experts Group compression)	No	See Note #3 below
JPEG2000 formats
JPEG2000 format with negligible information loss	FF_JPG2K_SUPERB	Yes	Yes	8-bit grayscale and 24-bit true-color		No
JPEG2000 format with average information loss	FF_JPG2K_GOOD	Yes	Yes	8-bit grayscale and 24-bit true-color		No
JPEG2000 format optimized for minimum image file size	FF_JPG2K_MIN	Yes	Yes	8-bit grayscale and 24-bit true-color		No
JBIG2 formats
JBIG2 format with no information loss	FF_JBIG2_LOSSLESS	Yes	Yes	8-bit grayscale and 24-bit true-color		No
JBIG2 optimized for minimum image file size	FF_JBIG2_LOSSY	Yes	Yes	8-bit grayscale and 24-bit true-color		No
Portable image format for Network Graphics
Portable Network Graphics (PNG)	FF_PNG	Yes	Yes	B/W, 4-bit and 8-bit grayscale, 24-bit true-color, and 8-bit palette-color	PNG proprietary	No	See Note #2 below
PaperPort MAX file format
MAX format without information loss	FF_MAX_LOSSLESS	Yes	No	B/W, 8-bit grayscale and 24-bit true-color	B/W: Run End Encoding, Gray-scale: modified PNG, Color: JPEG	Yes	LZW-compressed MAX files are not supported.
MAX format with average information loss	FF_MAX_GOOD	Yes	No	B/W, 8-bit grayscale and 24-bit true-color	B/W: Run End Encoding, Gray-scale: modified PNG, Color: JPEG	Yes	LZW-compressed MAX files are not supported.
MAX format optimized for minimum image file size	FF_MAX_MIN	Yes	No	B/W, 8-bit grayscale and 24-bit true-color	B/W: Run End Encoding, Gray-scale: modified PNG, Color: JPEG	Yes	LZW-compressed MAX files are not supported.
Adobe PDF format
Adobe Portable Document Format	FF_PDF_* (see IMF_FORMAT)	Yes	Yes	As the result of the image loading process either a B/W, or a 8-bit grayscale or a 24-bit true-color image will be created in the Engine		Yes	Supports standard PDF files compliant with the PDF v1.5 specification on loading – PDF v1.0 on saving.
CompuServe GIF format
Graphic Interchange Format	FF_GIF	Yes	Yes	Standard GIF format (256-color palette)		Yes. Only the first frame
XPS format
	FF_XPS	Yes	No
Microsoft HD Photo
	FF_WMP	Yes	Yes	B/W, 8-bit grayscale and 24-bit true-color		No
ScanSoft Pagis XIF format
XIF format (eXtended Image Format)	FF_XIFF	Yes	No	B/W, 4-bit and 8-bit grayscale, and 24-bit true-color		Yes	See Note #2 below
ScanSoft’s proprietary format
ScanSoft’s simple image file format	FF_SIM	Yes	Yes	B/W	None		Uncompressed raw image data. First word is the image width in bytes while the second word corresponds to the image height in pixels.
Caere’s proprietary format
	FF_PDA	Yes	No				Only images with a single zone.

Note:: 1. The Engine is able to load 'old style' JPEG compressed TIFF image files (TIFF compression=6).; 2. On loading, 4-bit greyscale images are converted into the 8-bit greyscale format, and 4-bit palette color images are converted into the 8-bit palette color format.; 3. When a 8-bit palette color image is saved into JPEG format, it is coverted to 24-bit color.