
If you are a long-time user and you have import filters and Themes that you have long relied on, they should still work as they always have.
OriginLab continues support for Origin's long-standing X-Function + filter-based routines for ASCII, CSV, Excel, binary files, and many third-party formats, including MATLAB, pClamp, NI TDM and NetCDF. In Origin 2021b, for instance, we have improved Connectors for National Instruments TDMS and NetCDF files plus we've added a new Thermo Fisher Scientific MSRawFile Connector. In addition, OriginLab continues to expand Connector support to new data formats. Data Connectors support drag-and-drop and Auto Import on Project Open. Data Connectors also make possible import of previously-unavailable data sources, including HTML Tables and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).
Data Connectors support options for excluding imported data when saving the project (smaller files, plus, maintain a live link to source data) and for protection of data against accidental alteration or deletion. The source file may be local, it can be on a company network it can even be on a web-server. As the name implies, Data Connectors create a link between your project and an external source file. A new generalized data import mechanism we call Data Connectors was added in Origin 2019b.