Supported File Formats

What image/file formats xyscan can load depends slightly on the platform. By default, xyscan supports the following formats:

Format Description
BMP Windows Bitmap
GIF Graphic Interchange Format (optional)
JPG Joint Photographic Experts Group
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
PNG Portable Network Graphics
PBM Portable Bitmap
PGM Portable Graymap
PPM Portable Pixmap
XBM X11 Bitmap
XPM X11 Pixmap
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
PDF Portable Document Format

TIF and PNG files work on most platforms. Starting with version 4, xyscan also supports PDF documents on Linux and macOS.