Supported file formats & CSV import

Document upload

Skimle currently supports the following file formats for document upload:

• PDF
• DOCX
• RTF
• TXT

For importing multiple documents at once, you we support CSV (comma-separated values) and Excel files.

CVS and Excel import

Often your data is in a spreadsheet format or inside another service that exports data in CSV format, where every row corresponds to a distinct document. Skimle supports importing these files directly into your project, with columns containing either content or metadata.

Before accepting the file, you should click "Configure" to see the columsn Skimle is about to import.

For each column, you can choose whether it is included as content inside your document, as a metadata field, or ignored. You may want to edit the column headings before importing, as the first row of the CSV or Excel file is used to create section headings and metadata field names.

This is an example what the document looks like with names of "Content" columns as headings and the contents of the corresponding row as the text under the header. Thus, each document row will be its own document in Skimle. Note that headers are only created for those column that have a non-empty value in the corresponding spreadsheet or CSV row.