Documentation: update FAQ about file extension handling (#12000 )

--------- Co-authored-by: shamoon <4887959+shamoon@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-02-05 23:32:46 -06:00 · 2026-02-05 02:05:47 +00:00
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@@ -63,8 +63,10 @@ elsewhere. Here are a couple notes about that.
    Paperless also supports various Office documents (.docx, .doc, odt,
    .ppt, .pptx, .odp, .xls, .xlsx, .ods).

-Paperless-ngx determines the type of a file by inspecting its content.
-The file extensions do not matter.
+Paperless-ngx determines the type of a file by inspecting its content
+rather than its file extensions. However, files processed via the
+consumption directory will be rejected if they have a file extension that
+not supported by any of the available parsers.

 ## _Will paperless-ngx run on Raspberry Pi?_