Format validation and analysis software
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This is a list of tools and applications for validating formats and extracting metadata from files.
- http://aperture.sourceforge.net/ Aperture
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/bwfmetaedit BWF MetaEdit
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/droid/ DROID
- http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool ExifTool
- http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/software/fido FIDO
- http://linux.die.net/man/1/file file
- https://code.google.com/p/fits/ FITS
- http://markzware.com/flightcheck FlightCheck
- http://www.imagemagick.org/script/identify.php ImageMagick
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/jhove/ JHOVE
- http://www.jhove2.org JHOVE2
- http://mp3-validator.apponic.com/ MP3 Validator
- http://www.natlib.govt.nz/services/get-advice/digital-libraries/metadata-extraction-tool NLNZ Metadata Extraction Tool
- http://tika.apache.org/ Tika
As well, checksums, hash and signature functions can be used to determine if a file has changed. A hash of a trusted version of the file is required for comparison.
