Configuration

This guide provides detailed configuration options under Workflow Management > Workflows > [Workflow name] > File Type, enabling users to customize detection settings effectively.

Detect file type mismatch

Accepted extensions

Accepted extensions is a feature that allows customers to add extensions for specific file type to avoid mismatching.

Include file details

See details of additional info returned by the engine at File info details.

Detect encrypted archive

Perform detection on the encryption attribute of archive files, such as ZIP and RAR.

If the option is turned on, encrypted archive files will have the returned output with value True in field encrypted.

Note: For Encrypted ZIP file, this feature only works when Core version is greater than 5.1.0.

"file_info": {

    "description": "Encrypted ZIP Archive",

    "encrypted": true,

    "extensions": "zip,zipx",

    "groupID": "A",

    "groupIDs": [

        "A"

    ],

    "group_description": "Archive Files",

    "likely_type_ids": [

        {

            "score": 1,

            "typeID": "ZIP"

        }

    ],

    "type": "application/zip",

    "typeID": "ZIP",

    "type_ids": [

        "ZIP"

    ]

}

Overwrite a file type by another file type

This option is to alter the detected result (type ID) to a similar one.

Classify with Machine Learning

Classify files using Machine Learning. See details in here.

Distinguish zero-byte files

If enabled, zero-byte files will be detected as ZERO instead of DATA.

Detect Base64 encoded text

Returns Base64 if the file is TXT and Base64 encoded.

Detect ASCII text

Enable ASCII detector to cover wide variety of ASCII text, e.g., non-printable or control characters. We can configure the threshold for allowable non-printable characters via spin-box Non-printable threshold.

Non-printable characters

Detect Shift-JIS text

Enable Shift-JIS text detector to cover wide variety of Shift-JIS text.