Get supported document formats

Reference
Feature: Azure AI Translator → Document Translation
API Version: 2024-05-01
HTTP method: GET

This method returns a list of document formats supported by the Document Translation feature. The list includes common file extensions and content-type if using the upload API.

Request URL

Important

All API requests to the Document Translation feature require a custom domain endpoint that is located on your resource overview page in the Azure portal.

 curl -i -X GET "{document-translation-endpoint}/translator/document/formats?api-version={date}&type=document"

Request headers

Request headers are:

Headers Description
Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key Required request header

Response status codes

The following are the possible HTTP status codes that a request returns.

Status Code Description
200 OK. Returns the list of supported document file formats.
500 Internal Server Error.
Other Status Codes • Too many requests
• Server temporary unavailable

File format response

Successful fileFormatListResult response

The following information is returned in a successful response.

Name Type Description
value FileFormat [] FileFormat[] contains the listed details.
value.contentTypes string[] Supported Content-Types for this format.
value.defaultVersion string Default version if none is specified.
value.fileExtensions string[] Supported file extension for this format.
value.format string Name of the format.
value.versions string [] Supported version.

Error response

Name Type Description
code string Enums containing high-level error codes. Possible values: • InternalServerError
• InvalidArgument
• InvalidRequest
• RequestRateTooHigh
• ResourceNotFound
• ServiceUnavailable
• Unauthorized
message string Gets high-level error message.
innerError InnerTranslationError New Inner Error format that conforms to Azure AI services API Guidelines. This error message contains required properties ErrorCode, message, and optional properties target, details(key value pair), inner error(it can be nested).
innerError.code string Gets code error string.
innerError.message string Gets high-level error message.
innerError.target string Gets the source of the error. For example, it would be documents or document id for an invalid document.

Examples

Example successful response

The following JSON object is an example of a successful response.

Status code: 200

{
    "value": [
        {
            "format": "PlainText",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".txt"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "text/plain"
            ],
            "versions": []
        },
        {
            "format": "OpenXmlWord",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".docx"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document"
            ],
            "versions": []
        },
        {
            "format": "OpenXmlPresentation",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".pptx"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation"
            ],
            "versions": []
        },
        {
            "format": "OpenXmlSpreadsheet",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".xlsx"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet"
            ],
            "versions": []
        },
        {
            "format": "OutlookMailMessage",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".msg"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "application/vnd.ms-outlook"
            ],
            "versions": []
        },
        {
            "format": "HtmlFile",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".html",
                ".htm"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "text/html"
            ],
            "versions": []
        },
        {
            "format": "PortableDocumentFormat",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".pdf"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "application/pdf"
            ],
            "versions": []
        },
        {
            "format": "XLIFF",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".xlf"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "application/xliff+xml"
            ],
            "versions": [
                "1.0",
                "1.1",
                "1.2"
            ]
        },
        {
            "format": "TSV",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".tsv",
                ".tab"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "text/tab-separated-values"
            ],
            "versions": []
        },
        {
            "format": "CSV",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".csv"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "text/csv"
            ],
            "versions": []
        },
        {
            "format": "RichTextFormat",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".rtf"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "application/rtf"
            ],
            "versions": []
        },
        {
            "format": "WordDocument",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".doc"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "application/msword"
            ],
            "versions": []
        },
        {
            "format": "PowerpointPresentation",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".ppt"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint"
            ],
            "versions": []
        },
        {
            "format": "ExcelSpreadsheet",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".xls"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "application/vnd.ms-excel"
            ],
            "versions": []
        },
        {
            "format": "OpenDocumentText",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".odt"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text"
            ],
            "versions": []
        },
        {
            "format": "OpenDocumentPresentation",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".odp"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation"
            ],
            "versions": []
        },
        {
            "format": "OpenDocumentSpreadsheet",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".ods"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet"
            ],
            "versions": []
        },
        {
            "format": "Markdown",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".markdown",
                ".mdown",
                ".mkdn",
                ".md",
                ".mkd",
                ".mdwn",
                ".mdtxt",
                ".mdtext",
                ".rmd"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "text/markdown",
                "text/x-markdown",
                "text/plain"
            ],
            "versions": []
        },
        {
            "format": "Mhtml",
            "fileExtensions": [
                ".mhtml",
                ".mht"
            ],
            "contentTypes": [
                "message/rfc822",
                "application/x-mimearchive",
                "multipart/related"
            ],
            "versions": []
        }
    ]
}

Example error response

The following JSON object is an example of an error response. The schema for other error codes is the same.

Status code: 500

{
  "error": {
    "code": "InternalServerError",
    "message": "Internal Server Error",
    "innerError": {
      "code": "InternalServerError",
      "message": "Unexpected internal server error has occurred"
    }
  }
}

Next steps

Follow our quickstart to learn more about using Document Translation and the client library.