What does the MapInfo TAB reader in FME primarily do?

• A. It reads MapInfo TAB files
• B. It writes MapInfo TAB files
• C. It converts JSON to TAB
• D. It reads XML data

Answer: (A)

The MapInfo TAB reader is designed to bring MapInfo TAB format data into FME. It opens the TAB dataset, reads each feature’s geometry and attributes, and outputs them as FME features that downstream transformers can process, transform, or combine with other data. It does not write TAB files—that would be the job of a separate MapInfo TAB writer. It also isn’t responsible for converting JSON to TAB or reading XML data; those formats have their own respective readers, and you would surface their data into FME to then write or transform as needed. So the primary purpose is to import MapInfo TAB data into a workspace for processing.