# Data from different sources and of different formats **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Search\ **Created:** [August 2, 2020, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-from-different-sources-and-of-different-formats/243455 "2020-08-02T11:45:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tnkumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tnkumar/32/73184_2.png) [@tnkumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tnkumar)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-from-different-sources-and-of-different-formats/243455/1 "2020-08-02T11:45:09Z")
Reliably and securely take data from any source, in any format, then search, analyze, and visualize it in real time - is what ELK is about I have word, pdf, ppt documents. Are these called formats? How do I ingest these into my Elasticsearch service? Different sources - googledocs, sharepoint, directory in my computer - How do I configure Elastic search to accept documents from these sources? I got my elasticsearch free trial yesterday ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-from-different-sources-and-of-different-formats/243455/2 "2020-08-03T22:18:59Z")
You can use our Enterprise Search solutions - [https://www.elastic.co/enterprise-search](https://www.elastic.co/enterprise-search) - or you can build something yourself to do this. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-from-different-sources-and-of-different-formats/243455/3 "2022-11-04T08:08:33Z")