represents a piece of imported data that has no special representation in the Wolfram Language.


ImportedObject
represents a piece of imported data that has no special representation in the Wolfram Language.
Details

- ImportedObject[…] is returned by Import when importing certain formats where not all pieces of the format can be represented as a known Wolfram Language data type.
- ImportedObject[…]["Properties"] gives a list of available properties.
- ImportedObject[…]["prop"] can be used to extract properties of the object.
- Any ImportedObject always includes the following properties:
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"OriginalFormat" format of the file from which the object was imported "RawContent" byte array of raw data - Other properties of ImportedObject[…] depend on the format of the file and the type of data that was imported.
Related Guides
History
Text
Wolfram Research (2020), ImportedObject, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ImportedObject.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2020. "ImportedObject." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ImportedObject.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2020). ImportedObject. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ImportedObject.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_importedobject, author="Wolfram Research", title="{ImportedObject}", year="2020", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ImportedObject.html}", note=[Accessed: 14-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_importedobject, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={ImportedObject}, year={2020}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ImportedObject.html}, note=[Accessed: 14-August-2025]}