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Output Formats Reference

This section is under development.

Comprehensive guide to all output formats supported by PyForge CLI.

Coming Soon

Detailed output format specifications will be available in a future release.

Current Output Formats

Text (.txt)

  • Used for: PDF conversion
  • Encoding: UTF-8
  • Features: Preserves line breaks and basic formatting

Parquet (.parquet)

  • Used for: Excel, XML, MDB/ACCDB, DBF, CSV conversion
  • Compression: SNAPPY (default), GZIP, LZ4, ZSTD
  • Features: Column-oriented, highly compressed, fast read/write
  • Data Types: String-based conversion (Phase 1 implementation)
  • Schemas: Automatically inferred from source structure

Format Details

For detailed information about each output format, see:

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