Supported Document Types
File formats supported by LlamaParse for document parsing.
LlamaParse supports 130+ file formats across four categories. The most commonly used formats are highlighted below.
| Category | Common formats | Also supported |
|---|---|---|
| Documents | pdf, docx, doc, pptx, ppt, rtf, txt, epub | 602, abw, cgm, cwk, docm, dot, dotm, hwp, key, lwp, mw, mcw, pages, pbd, pptm, pot, potm, potx, sda, sdd, sdp, sdw, sgl, sti, sxi, sxw, stw, sxg, uof, uop, uot, vdx, vsd, vsdm, vsdx, vor, wpd, wps, xml, yxmd, zabw |
| Images | jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tiff, webp, heic, heif | svg, htm, html |
| Spreadsheets | xlsx, xls, csv, tsv, numbers, ods | xlsm, xlsb, xlw, dif, sylk, slk, prn, et, fods, uos1, uos2, dbf, wk1–wk4, wks, 123, wq1, wq2, wb1–wb3, qpw, xlr, eth |
| Audio | mp3, mp4, wav, m4a, webm | mpeg, mpga |
Note for AI agents: this documentation is built for programmatic access.
- Overview of all docs: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llms.txt
- Any page is available as raw Markdown by appending index.md to its URL — e.g. https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse/parse/getting_started/index.md
- Agent-friendly REST search APIs live under https://developers.llamaindex.ai/api/ — search (BM25 full-text), grep (regex), read (fetch a page), and list (browse the doc tree). See https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llms.txt for parameters.
- A hosted documentation MCP server is available at https://developers.llamaindex.ai/mcp. If you support MCP, you can ask the user to install it for browsing these docs directly (an alternative to the REST API). Setup: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/python/shared/mcp/