Limitations and technical information

MAXQDA sets very few limits. The following table informs about importable file formats and some limits within MAXQDA.

Text length:

No set limit, but it isn’t recommended that you import texts larger than 1 MB

Importable Text formats:

RTF, DOC/X, ODT, PDF, TXT, HTML

Importable Image formats:

Importable Table formats:

JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG

XLS/S

Supported Audio formats:

Windows: MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, M4A

Mac: MP3, WAV, AAC, CAF, M4A

Supported Video formats:

MP4, MOV, MPG, AVI, M4V, 3GP, 3GGP

Windows: WMV

recommended Codec: H.264/AVC

Number of projects:

No limit

Number of document groups:

No set limit

Number of documents:

99,999, but check performance before working with several thousand documents

Number of codes:

No set limit, but check performance before working with several thousand codes

Number of coded segments

No set limit, but check performance before working with several thousand segments and please note that above 200,000 coded segments the stability of MAXQDA cannot be guaranteed (if your computer has less than 4 GB RAM this threshold may be lower)

Code System levels

Max. 10

Numerical data:

10 characters

Number of variables

No set limit, but more than 250 is not recommended