> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.context.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

> ## Agent Instructions
> Setting up Context.dev for a user? Follow https://docs.context.dev/agent-quickstart.md. MCP clients sign in with OAuth and need no API key; application code reads CONTEXT_DEV_API_KEY.

# Supported formats

> Choose file types and understand their Markdown output.

Parse detects the uploaded file’s type. Use the `extension` query parameter to disambiguate text or formats without a clear signature.

| Input                                   | Output                                                |
| --------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| PDF, DOCX                               | Structured sections and text.                         |
| DOC, RTF                                | Paragraph text.                                       |
| XLSX, XLS, CSV, TSV                     | Tables by sheet, or preserved delimited data.         |
| PPTX, PPT                               | Slide sections, text, tables, and available notes.    |
| HTML, XML, feeds                        | Structured content with optional links and images.    |
| JSON, YAML, SVG                         | Fenced source data or markup.                         |
| Text, Markdown, subtitles, code         | Preserved text and applicable language-tagged blocks. |
| JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, WebP, Netpbm | Image metadata; enable OCR to read text.              |

The [reference’s extension list](/api-reference/utility/parse) is the complete supported set. Unsupported data returns 415; an extension hint cannot convert an unsupported file into a supported one.

Keep the upload under 50 MiB and send the original bytes. See [PDFs and OCR](/parse/pdfs-and-ocr) for image-only documents.