RasterMaster File Format Descriptions
| File Format | Description | File type Number | Input Bit Depth | Output Bit Depth | Common File Ext. | Java Read | Java Write | Supports Text Search |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABIC (reading) | IBM image compression for scanned checks. Note: Not yet supported with RasterMaster .NET x64 or RasterMaster DLL x64 |
46 | 1 | 1 | O | false | ||
| AFP (MO:DCA) | Advanced Function Presentation. IBM format which uses CITT G3, G4, and IBM MMR formats. 1-bit only. This is a multi-page file format. |
74 | 1, 24 | 1, 24 | .afp | O | O | true |
| ASCII | RasterMaster reads ASCII text files and converts them to a bitmap. |
38 | 1 | false | .txt | B | true | |
| BMP_COMPRESSED | Originated by Microsoft, BMP supports 1, 4, 5, and 24-bit images. |
12 | 4, 8 | 8 | .bmp | B | false | |
| BMP_UNCOMPRESSED | Originated by Microsoft, BMP supports 1, 4, 5, and 24-bit images. |
1 | 1, 4, 8, 16, 24 | 1, 8, 24 | .bmp | B | false | |
| BROOK_TROUT | Brooktrout FAX format. |
29 | 1 | 1 | .brk | false | ||
| CALS | Government specified format. |
18 | 1 | 1 | .cal | B | B | false |
| CCITT_G3 | Group 3 compression for bitonal (1-bit) image data. |
33 | 1 | 1 | .tif | B | false | |
| CCITT_G3_FO | Group 3 compression for bitonal (1-bit) image data. |
53 | 1 | 1 | .tif | B | false | |
| CCITT_G4 | Group 4 compression for bitonal (1-bit) image data. |
34 | 1 | 1 | .tif | B | B | false |
| CCITT_G4_FO | Group 4 compression for bitonal (1-bit) image data. |
52 | 1 | 1 | .tif | B | B | false |
| CFF | Compact Font Format is a lossless compaction of the Type 1 format using Type 2 charstrings. It is designed to use less storage space than Type 1 fonts by using operators with multiple arguments, various pre-defined default values, more efficient allotment of encoding values, and shared subroutines with a FontSet (family of fonts). |
83 | 1, 8, 24 | 1, 8, 24 | .cff | O | false | |
| CIFF | Camera Image File Format is a raw format designed by Canon. |
81 | 1, 8, 24 | 1, 8, 24 | .cif | O | false | |
| CIMS (ABIC) | Check Image Management System developed by Carreker. Same as ABIC. Note: Not yet supposed with RasterMaster .NET x64 or RasterMaster DLL x64. |
80 | 1 | false | O | false | ||
| CLIP | Microsoft Windows clipboard format. |
27 | 1, 4, 8, 24 | 1, 8, 24 | .cip | false | ||
| COD | Liberty IMS black and white format. |
72 | 1 | false | .cod | false | ||
| CSV | Comma separated value list (a text spreadsheet). |
99 | 1, 2, 4 | false | .csv | O | false | |
| CUT | Cut images are only 8 bits per pixel and the palette is stored in a separate file. Originated by Media Cybernetics. |
31 | 8 | false | .cut | false | ||
| DCX | Intel created this format as a multi-page .PCX format. Each page is a .PCX file in whole which can be 1, 4, 8, and 24-bit. |
11 | 1, 4, 8, 24 | 1, 8, 24 | .dcx | false | ||
| DIB | Standard Windows Device Independent Bitmap. Supports 1, 4, 8, and 24-bits. This is a multi-page format. |
48 | 1, 4, 8, 24 | 1, 8, 24 | .dib | B | B | false |
| DICOM | Medical image format supporting 1, 12, 16, and 24 pixel images. Limited support. |
55 | 8, 16, 24 | false | .dcm | B | false | |
| DOC | Microsoft Word format. Supports Microsoft Word 97, version 8 or later. Supports 1-bit images. Cannot decompress (view) document while open in MS Word. The following features have not yet been implemented: right-to-left text flow, underlined URLs, section and paragraph borders and shading, text boxes, multi-column paragraph, Windows Meta Files (WMF) clip art, autoshapes, and embedded OLE objects. Inconsistencies exist between MS Word and the Word plugin with regards to character and line spacing. Reading support only. This is a multi-page file format. |
86 | 1, 8, 24, 32 | false | .doc | O | true | |
| DOCX | The .docx format is part of a family of open office XML-based formats developed by Microsoft. It is the default document format for saving DOCX applications in Microsoft Word starting with Office 2007. It is based on XML rather than Microsoft?s .doc format. Reading support only. This is a multi-page file format. |
93 | 1, 8, 24, 32 | false | .docx | O | true | |
| DSC | the DCS format is a standard Quark Express Format. Each plane is stored as an EPS record. |
62 | 32 | 32 | .dcs | false | ||
| DWG | Autodesk(R) AutoCAD(R) format. Usedfor computer aided design (CAD) DWG data and metadata. The DWG format can be read in the VirtualViewer .NET Content Server. |
90 | 0 | 24 | .dwg | false | ||
| DXF | Autodesk(R) AutoCAD(R) format. Used for computer aided design (CAD) data and metadata. See the fol- lowing, for the full specification: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=8446698. The DWG format can be read in the VirtualViewer .NET Content Server. |
91 | 0 | 24 | .dxf | false | ||
E-mail message created with MS Outlook |
89 | 1 | .msg | O | false | |||
| EML | A MIME RFC 822 standard format that is used by many email clients including Microsoft Outlook Express, Lotus Notes, Windows Live Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Postbox. |
103 | 1 | .eml | O | false | ||
| EPS (preview) | Encapsulated Postscript originated by Adobe. Postscript is an interpreted language. RasterMaster does not support full Postscript but will extract an embedded .TIF file in the image. Sometimes called a bitmap representation file. |
14 | 1, 4, 8, 24 | 1, 8, 24 | .eps | B | B | false |
| EPS_BITMAP | EPS Compressed bitmap format. It is an Adobe encapsulated Postscript file with either G4 or JPEG data embedded. |
63 | 8, 24, 32 | 1, 8, 24 | .eps | B | B | false |
| EPS_BITMAP_G4 | EPS Compressed bitmap format. It is an Adobe encapsulated Postscript file with either G4 or JPEG data embedded. |
64 | false | 1, 8, 24 | .eps | B | false | |
| EPS_BITMAP_LZW | EPS Compressed bitmap format. It is Ean Adobe encapsulated Postscript LZW file with either G4 or JPEG data embedded. |
69 | false | 1, 8, 24 | .eps | B | false | |
| FileNet | FileNet Image format developed by FileNET Corporation for viewing documents. |
78 | 1 | 1 | B | false | ||
| FLASHPIX | FLASHPIX 24-bit tiled JPEG format that includes multiple resolution images. |
54 | 8, 24 | false | .fpx | false | ||
| GIF | Created by CompuServe for compressing 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8-bit palette images. Uses the LZW algorithm. |
4 | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 | 8 | .gif | B | B | false |
| GIF_INTERLACED | Same as GIF except stores the raster in an interlaced order. |
44 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 | 8 | .gif | B | false | |
| GX2 | Originated by Brightbill Roberts for ShowPartner DOS applications. Supports 4 and 8-bit images. Simple run length encoding technique. |
22 | 4, 8 | false | .gx2 | false | ||
| HEIC | High-Efficiency Image Container. Supports only 24-bit color images using HEVC codec. Read-only. |
109 | 24 | false | .heic | O | false | |
| HTML | Hyperlink Text Markup Language (HTML) is a tag-based language used to create documents for the Web. HTML forms are often used to capture information from web sites. Full HTML, Javascript and CSS support. |
82 | 0 | 24 | .htm, .html | O | true | |
| ICONTYPE | Microsoft icon format. Contains a standard device independent bitmap. Supports 1 and 4 bits uncompressed. |
25 | 1, 4 | false | .ico | false | ||
| IFF_ILBM | Used on the Commodore Amiga computers for native bitmap format. Uses a run length format for 1, 4, 8, 24 and 8-bit palette images. |
26 | 1, 4, 8, 24 | 1, 8, 24 | .iff | false | ||
| IMG | Originated by Digital Research for storing 1-bit images. |
28 | 1 | false | .img | false | ||
| IMNET | IMNET G4 compressed format. |
42 | 1 | false | B | false | ||
| IOCA (MO:DCA) | Image Object Content Architecture. IBM format which uses CCITT G3, (MO:DCA) G4, and IBM MMR formats. 1-bit only. This is a multi-page file format. |
24 | 1, 24 | 1 | .ico | O | O | false |
| JBIG | Joint bi-level Image Experts Group. This is a highly compressed format which is stored in a TIFF header. It supports 1 or 8-bit gray scale images. |
71 | 1 | 1 (with plugin) | .jbg | B | false | |
| JBIG2 | JBIG2 is a highly-compressed black and white image format that uses symbol recognition and substitution for very dramatic compression results. RasterMaster and VirtualViewer are programs that can be used to directly view JBIG2 documents or convert those documents to a variety of output formats. |
77 | 1 | 1 (with plugin) | .jbg | B | false | |
| JEDMICS | US Military CCITT G4 tiled image format for storing Government documents and drawings. Supports 1-bit per pixel. |
56 | 1 | 1 | .jed | B | false | |
| JPEG | Joint Photographics Experts Group. This was a group spearheaded by Kodak for 24, 32, and 8-bit grayscale lossy compression. Lossless JPEG not supported. |
13 | 8, 24, 32 | 8, 24 | .jpg | B | B | false |
| JPEG2000 | JPEG 2000 specification. This is similar to JPEG but produces much better compression with better quality. It is supported as a separate plugin. An option exists to set the compression level for saving. |
70 | 8, 24 | false | .jpg2 | O | false | |
| KOFAX | Kofax Format |
23 | 1 | false | false | |||
| LASER_DATA | Compression for documents originated by LaserData Corp. 1-bit images only. |
19 | 1 | false | false | |||
| LINE_DATA | Presents data for each variable on a single line. |
75 | 1 | 1 | false | |||
| MACPAINT | Original Apple bitmap file format. All MacPaint images are 720 x 576 pixels 1 bit. |
21 | 1 | false | false | |||
| MAG | Mag Format. |
61 | 1 | false | .mag | false | ||
| MO:DCA | Mixed Object: Document Content Architecture. IBM format which uses MO:DCA CCITT G3, G4, and IBM MMR formats. 1-bit only. This is a multi-page file format. |
49 | 1, 24 | 1 | .mca | O | O | true |
| MSP | Microsoft Paint program bitmap file format. Supports 1-bit images. Uses a type of RLE compression found also in compressed .BMP files. |
30 | 1 | false | .msp | false | ||
| NCR | A simple header with CCITT group 4 data. |
65 | 1 | false | .ncr | B | false | |
| ODF | Open Document Format is an XML-based file format for representing ODF electronic documents such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. |
98 | false | false | .odf | O | false | |
| ODP | ODP Open Document Format for presentations. |
101 | false | false | .odp | O | true | |
| ODS | Open Document Format for spreadsheets. |
97 | 1, 24 | false | .ods | O | true | |
| ODT | ODT Open Document Format for word processing (text) documents. |
96 | 1, 24 | false | .odt | O | true | |
| OOXML | Office Open Extended Markup Language or Office Open XML (also informally known as OOXML or OpenXML) is a zipped, XML-based file format developed 94 by Microsoft for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents that is intended for use with the 2007 and later versions of the Microsoft Office suite. |
94 | 1, 8, 24 | false | O | true | ||
| PCL_1 (with plugin) | Hewlett Packard printer file format. Support for color and grayscale output. Supported as a separate plugin. This is a multi-page file format. |
57 | 1, 24 | 1 | .pcl | O | B | true |
| PCL_1 (without plugin) | Hewlett Packard printer file format. Support for color and grayscale output. Supported as a separate plugin. This is a multi-page file format. |
57 | false | 1 | .pcl | O | B | true |
| PCL_5 | Hewlett Packard printer file format. Support for color and grayscale output. This is a multi-page file format. |
76 | false | 1 | .pcl | O | B | true |
| PCX | Zsoft bitmap file format. Similar to pack bits compression. Supports 1, 4, 8, and 24-bit images. |
2 | 1, 4, 8, 24 | 1, 8, 24 | .pcx | B | false | |
| PDF (with plugin) | Portable Document Format. File format developed by Adobe to capture formatting information from a variety of desktop publishing applications. It allows the user to send formatted documents and have them appear on the recipient’s monitor or printer as they were intended. Compatible with the PDF/A specification and conforms to PDF v1.4. Does not currently support JPEG2000 in PDF for Java. Supports some types of Adobe specified PDF annotations, however does not support XFA annotations. Does not support corrupt PDF documents. RasterMaster requires that the fonts needed be available on the system. This is a multi-page file format. |
59 | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 | 1, 24 | O | B | true | |
| PDF (without plugin) | Portable Document Format. File format developed by Adobe to capture formatting information from a variety of desktop publishing applications. It allows the user to send formatted documents and have them appear on the recipient’s monitor or printer as they were intended. Compatible with the PDF/A specification and conforms to PDF v1.4. Does not currently support JPEG2000 in PDF for Java. Supports some types of Adobe specified PDF annotations, however does not support XFA annotations. Does not support corrupt PDF documents. RasterMaster requires that the fonts needed be available on the system. This is a multi-page file format. |
59 | false | 1, 24 | O | B | true | |
| PDF_15 | Portable Document Format. File format developed by Adobe to capture formatting information from a variety of desktop publishing applications. It allows the user to send formatted documents and have them appear on the recipient’s monitor or printer as they were intended. Compatible with the PDF/A specification and conforms to PDF v1.4. Does not currently support JPEG2000 in PDF for Java Supports some types of Adobe specified PDF annotations, however does not support XFA annotations. Does not support corrupt PDF documents. RasterMaster requires that the fonts needed be available on the system. This is a multi-page file format. Note: Only supported with RasterMaster .NET or RasterMaster DLL. This format is not yet supported in RasterMaster Java. |
79 | false | 1, 24 | O | B | true | |
| PDF_16 | Portable Document Format. File format developed by Adobe to capture formatting information from a variety of desktop publishing applications. It allows the user to send formatted documents and have them appear on the recipient’s monitor or printer as they were intended. Compatible with the PDF/A specification and conforms to PDF v1.4. Does not currently support JPEG2000 in PDF for Java. Supports some types of Adobe specified PDF annotations, however does not support XFA annotations. Does not support corrupt PDF documents. RasterMaster requires that the fonts needed be available on the system. This is a multi-page file format. Note: Only supported with RasterMaster .NET or RasterMaster DLL. This format is not yet supported in Rastermaster Java. |
92 | false | 1, 24 | O | B | true | |
| PDF_LZW | Portable Document Format. File format developed by Adobe to capture formatting information from a variety of desktop publishing applications. It allows the user to send formatted documents and have them appear on the recipient’s monitor or printer as they were intended. Compatible with the PDF/A specification and conforms to PDF v1.4. Does not currently support JPEG2000 in PDF for Java. Supports some types of Adobe specified PDF annotations, however does not support XFA annotations. Does not support corrupt PDF documents. RasterMaster requires that the fonts needed be available on the system. This is a multi-page file format. |
88 | false | 1, 24 | O | B | true | |
| PHOTOCD | Kodak photo CD format. Supports only 24-bit images. This format contains at least 5 images. Get these images as you would a multi-page file format. Page 0 - 768 x 512 ; Page 1 - 384 x 256 ; Page 2 - 192 x 128 ; Page 3 - 1536 x 1024 ; Page 4 - 3072 x 2048; Images are uncompressed until the 1536 x 1024 images or greater. All images are stored as YCC data which is luminance then blue and red chrominance channels. The large image must be built from the smaller images by interpolation then adding the residual data stored by Huffman encoding. |
39 | 24 | false | .pcd | false | ||
| PHOTOSHOP | Adobe Photoshop format for storing 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32-bit images. Can be compressed or uncompressed. Images may also be stored as CMYK data or RGB. |
41 | 1, 4, 8, 24, 32 | 1, 8, 24 | .psd | false | ||
| PICT | Apple Macintosh bitmap file format. These images may contain vector information such as lines and circles. Only the bitmap portion of data is decompressed. Uses pack bits compression. Supports 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 32-bit images. |
15 | 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 | 1, 8, 24 | .pct | false | ||
| PNG (optional) | Originated by CompuServe to replace the .GIF file format. Uses the Huffman encoding variant. Supports 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 24, and 32-bit images. Also supports interlaced and transparency. |
43 | 1, 4, 8, 24, 32 | 1, 8, 16 | .png | B | B | false |
| PPT | Microsoft PowerPoint Binary File Format which is the binary file format used by Microsoft PowerPoint 97, Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003. Reading support only. This is a multi-page file format. |
85 | 1, 8, 24, 32 | false | .ppt | O | true | |
| PPTX | The .pptx format is part of a family of open office XML-based formats developed by Microsoft. It is the default document format for saving applications in Microsoft PowerPoint starting with Office 2007. It is based on XML rather than Microsoft’s .ppt format. Reading support only. This is a multi-page file format. Supported on Java 7. |
100 | 1, 8, 24, 32 | false | .pptx | O | true | |
| RAST | Sun raster format. Supports 1, 8, 24, 1, 8, and 32-bits. Run length encoded format. |
37 | 1, 8, 24 | 1, 8, 24 | .ras | false | ||
| RTF | The Rich Text Format is a method of encoding formatted text and graphics for easy transfer between applications. |
87 | 1, 8, 24, 32 | false | .rtf | O | true | |
| SCITEX | The SCITEX format is a proprietary format originated from SCITEX Corporation. Gray scale color and CMYK color images. Usually compressed. |
60 | 24, 32 | 24 | .sct | false | ||
| SEARCHABLE_PDF | Searchable PDF, also known as “vector PDF” is a regular PDF file that contains searchable text content vs rasterized text. |
69 | false | false | O | B | true | |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics is an XML- based vector image format for two- dimensional graphics with support for interactivity and animation. SVG allows three types of graphic objects: vector graphics, raster graphics, and text. It is a known issue that Internet SVG Explorer has an issue rendering an image in SVG. If you have an issue rendering an image in IE, we recommend that you turn off SVG support for that format. You can turn off SVG support by either adding the format to the |
102 | false | 24 | .svg | B | false | |
| TARGA | The SCITEX format is a proprietary format originated from SCITEX Corporation. |
32 | 16 | 24 | .tga | false | ||
| TARGA16 | The SCITEX format is a proprietary format originated from SCITEX Corporation. |
32 | 16 | 24 | .tga | false | ||
| TIFF UNCOMPRESSED | Uncompressed raw binary data. This is a multi-page file format. |
0 | 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 | 1, 8, 24 | .tif | B | B | false |
| TIFF_2D | Tagged image file format. Created by an independent group and was supported by Aldus. .TIF files can be any number of bits per pixel, planes and several compression algorithms. The byte order may be Intel or Motorola format. The bytes may also be filled from right to left or left to right. Compression may be uncompressed, pack bits, LZW, modified Huffman, CCITT G4, CCITT G3, CCITT G3-2D or JPEG. Please note that the CCITT G4 file format only saves to black and white. This is a multipage file format. |
17 | 1 | false | .tif | B | false | |
| TIFF_ABIC | TIFF file with Arithmetic Binary encoding. Requires a special version of our tools. Very popular for check imaging. BW is used for 1-bit bi-level and TIFF_ABIC is for 4- bit gray scale images. This is a multi-page file format. |
46 | 4, 8 | false | .tif | O | false | |
| TIFF_ABIC_BW | TIFF file with Arithmetic Binary encoding. Requires a special ABIC version of our tools. Very popular for check imaging. BW is used for 1-bit bi-level and TIFF_ABIC is for 4-bit gray scale images. This is a multi-page file format. |
47 | 1 | false | .tif | O | false | |
| TIFF_G3_FAX | ANSI baseline Group 3 or Group 4 compression embedded in a TIFF. This is a multi-page file format. |
8 | 1 | 1 | .tif | B | B | false |
| TIFF_G4_FAX | ANSI baseline Group 3 or Group 4 compression embedded in a TIFF. This is a multi-page file format. |
10 | 1 | 1 | .tif | B | B | false |
| TIFF_G4_FAX_FO | ANSI baseline Group 3 or Group 4 compression embedded in a TIFF. This is a multi-page file format. |
51 | 1 | 1 | .tif | B | B | false |
| TIFF_G4_FAX_STRIP | ANSI baseline Group 3 or Group 4 compression embedded in a TIFF. This is a multi-page file format. |
67 | false | 1 | .tif | B | false | |
| TIFF_HUFFMAN | TIFF file compressed using the Huffman compression algorithm. This is a multi-page file format. |
7 | 1 | 1 | .tif | B | false | |
| TIFF_JBIG | Standard ansi baseline JBIG compression embedded in a TIFF. This is a multi-page file format. |
66 | 1 | 1 | .tif | B | B | false |
| TIFF_JPEG | Standard ansi baseline JPEG compression embedded in a TIFF. This is a multi-page file format. |
40 | 8, 24 | 8, 24 | .tif | B | B | false |
| TIFF_JPEG7 | Black and white gray scale format. This is a multi-page file format. |
73 | 1, 8 | 1, 8 | .tif | B | B | false |
| TIFF_LZW | TIFF file compressed using the LZW compression algorithm. The LZW algorithm includes the look-up table of codes as part of the compressed file. This is a multi-page file format. |
9 | 1, 4, 8, 24, 32 | 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 | .tif | B | B | false |
| TIFF_PACK | Simple run length encoding algorithm. This is a multi-page file format. |
16 | 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 | 1, 8 | .tif | B | B | false |
| UTF-16 | UTF-16 is a text format. It is a variable width encoding for the Unicode character set. It may start with the Byte Order Mark of 0xFE FF. |
87 | 1, 8, 24, 32 | false | .txt | B | false | |
| UTF-8 | UTF-8 is a text format. It is a variable width encoding for the Unicode character set. It may start with the Byte Order Mark of 0xFF FE. |
38 | 1 | false | .txt | B | false | |
| WBMP | Windows file format for wireless devices. |
68 | 1 | 1 | .wbmp | false | ||
| WINFAX | A simple header with CCITT group 3 compression. |
58 | 1 | false | false | |||
| WMF | Microsoft Windows Metafile format. These may contain vector information such as lines and circles. Only the bitmap data is extracted. This is in the form of a standard windows DIB. May be 1, 4, 8, and 24-bit. The 4 and 8-bit images may be compressed using Microsoft RLE compression as in .bmp files. |
6 | 1, 4, 8, 24 | 1, 8, 24 | .wmf | B | false | |
| WPG | WordPerfect?s metafile format. This is similar to the WMF file format in WPG that it may contain vector information. Supports 1, 4, 8, and 24-bit images.Only the bitmap data is extracted. |
5 | 1, 4, 8, 24 | 1, 8 | .wpg | false | ||
| XBM | Xwindows file format which encodes XBM each pixel as an ASCII byte. Only supports 8-bits per pixel. |
20 | 1 | 1 | .xbm | false | ||
| XEROX_EPS | Encapsulated Postscript for Xerox. |
45 | 1 | false | false | |||
| XLS | Excel Spreadsheet format for structuring and analyzing data. This is the binary file format used by Microsoft Excel 97, Microsoft Excel 2000, Microsoft Excel 2002, and Microsoft Office Excel 2003. Reading support only. This is a multi-page file format. |
84 | 1, 8, 24, 32 | false | .xls | O | true | |
| XLSX | The .xlsx format is part of a family of open office XML-based formats developed by Microsoft. It is the default document format for saving applications in Microsoft Excel starting with Office 2007. It is based on XML rather than Microsoft’s .xls format. Reading support only. This is a multi-page file format. |
95 | 1, 8, 24, 32 | false | .xlsx | O | true | |
| XPM | Xwindows bitmap file format stored 1, 4, XPM as ASCII data. Each pixel is stored as an ASCII byte. |
35 | 1, 4, 8 | 8 | .xpm | false |
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