DISCO extracts the following metadata fields from native files at ingest:
- Invalid dates are handled separately. See Invalid dates for details.
- Time zones are normalized to your database's configured time zone for consistent searching and sorting.
| Field name | Description |
| Author | Person who created the file. A file can have one or no author. |
| Company | Available company information extracted from Microsoft Office and PDF documents. |
| Title | Available title information extracted from Microsoft Office and PDF documents. |
| Conversation date | The date the email conversation started. See Invalid dates for more information. |
| Conversation time | The time the email conversation started. |
| Create date | The date the file was created. See Invalid dates for more information. |
| Create time | The time the file was created. |
| Date last accessed | The date the file was last accessed. |
| Time last accessed | The time the file was last accessed. |
| Date last modified | The date changes were last made to a file. |
| Time last modified | The time changes were last made to a file. |
| Date printed | The date the file was last printed. |
| Time printed | The time the file was last printed. |
| Date received | The date an email was received. |
| Time received | The time an email was received. |
| Date sent | The date an email was sent. |
| Time sent | The time an email was sent. |
| Family date | The date of the parent document. For emails, this is the date sent; for non-emails, it is the date last modified. |
| Family time | The time of the parent document. |
| From | Sender of an email. |
| To | Recipients in the to line of an email. |
| Bcc | Blind carbon copy recipients of an email. |
| Cc | Carbon copy recipients of an email. |
| Subject | Subject line in an email. |
| Attachment count | The number of attachments on an email. Also refers to the number of embedded files within a document. |
| Custodian(s) | Owner of the mailbox, computer, or share where an email or file were collected. |
| Document type | The kind of file a document came from. |
| File extension | The file extension of the native file. |
| File name | The original name of the native file. |
| File size | A file's size, in bytes. |
| Page count | The number of pages in a document. |
| Parent count | The number of parent documents a document has. |
| Partial path | The folder or parent folder from which the document was collected. |
| Path | The full file, folder, or directory structure from which the document was collected. |
| Hash | Numeric value of a fixed length that uniquely identifies data. |
| Document text | Extracted text or OCR. |