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2.1. General Information: What document formats are compatible with Kurzweil 3000 and kurzweil3000.com?
Kurzweil 3000 Windows/Mac and kurzweil3000.com document formats:
kurzweil3000.com
KES
K3C
TXT
RTF
DOC
DOCX
EPUB
BKS
PDF
JPG
JPEG
PNG
Kurzweil 3000 Windows
KES
K3C
K3B
RTF
TXT
DOC
DOCX
TIF
BMP
JPG
PNG
PDF
OPF
BKS
EPUB
HTM
HTML
XML
Kurzweil 3000 Mac
BKS
DOC
DOCX
EPUB
JPG
JPEG
K3B
K3C
KES
HTM
HTML
OPF
PDF
RTF
TIF
TXT
The above document formats may be opened directly in Kurzweil 3000 Windows/Mac and(or) kurzweil3000.com
If your content is not in one the above formats, it is recommended to use the Kesi Virtual Printer or a PDF printer in order to convert your document into a compatible format for use with either Kurzweil 3000 or kurzweil3000.com. Please note that the Kesi Virtual Printer is a feature of Kurzweil 3000, select this link for more information.
A description of these formats is below:
.kes - Kurzweil Document format. Converted image documents and newly created Kurzweil files use this format.
.k3c - Kurzweil Column Notes file.
.k3b - Kurzweil Document auto-backup file.
.txt - Text files (i.e. files created in Notepad)
.rtf - Rich text files (i.e. files created in Wordpad)
.doc - Microsoft Word (older versions of Word)
.docx - Microsoft Word (newer versions of Word)
.epub - EPUB documents (Note: file extension must end in .epub to be supported)
.opf - DAISY file format.
.bks - Compressed DAISY. This is sometimes used as a Bookshare/Kurzweil package format, if you rename a Bookshare.zip package to Bookshare.bks, Kurzweil3000.com and Kurzweil Windows/Mac can open this format.
.pdf - *Adobe PDF documents
.jpg .jpeg .png .bmp .tif - *Image file formats (i.e. taken with a camera that saves picture files)
.htm .html .xml - Web page formats.
(*Note: If you open a .pdf or other image type file directly into kurzweil3000.com, it will not be available on the Kurzweil side unless you open it at least once in kurzweil3000.com first)