File identification software
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* [[JHOVE]] (tool to classify/identify/validate file formats) | * [[JHOVE]] (tool to classify/identify/validate file formats) | ||
* [[MediaInfo]] (cross-platform, open source, [http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en website]): "MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files." | * [[MediaInfo]] (cross-platform, open source, [http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en website]): "MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files." | ||
| − | * [[Siegfried]] (signature-based file identification tool) [http://www.itforarchivists.com/siegfried] | + | * [[Siegfried]] (signature-based file identification tool) [http://www.itforarchivists.com/siegfried website] [http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2014-09-27-siegfried-pronom-based-file-format-identification-tool blog post] |
* [[TrID]] (Windows/Linux, free for non-commercial use, [http://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html website]): identifies files using a database of filetype signatures. Also has an [http://mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx online version]. | * [[TrID]] (Windows/Linux, free for non-commercial use, [http://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html website]): identifies files using a database of filetype signatures. Also has an [http://mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx online version]. | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
* http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/File_Format_Identification | * http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/File_Format_Identification | ||
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Software that automates the process of Identifying Files.
- Apache Tika (cross-platform, open source, website): "The Apache Tika™ toolkit detects and extracts metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries." Written in Java.
- DROID (cross-platform, open source, website): "DROID is a software tool developed by The National Archives [of the United Kingdom] to perform automated batch identification of file formats." Requires Java 6, will not run on Java 7 as of 28 Oct 2012.
- FIDO (cross-platform, open source, website: Format Identification for Digital Objects, written in Python.
- File command (various implementations): a standard Unix command, found on almost all Unix and Unix-like (i.e., Linux) systems. See the Debian man page for an overview.
- File Information Tool Set: software from the Harvard University library to identify file formats and extract metadata
- FI Tools (Windows, commercial, website)
- G-Spot (Windows, freeware, website): Identifies audio and video codecs need to play a media file.
- JHOVE (tool to classify/identify/validate file formats)
- MediaInfo (cross-platform, open source, website): "MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files."
- Siegfried (signature-based file identification tool) website blog post
- TrID (Windows/Linux, free for non-commercial use, website): identifies files using a database of filetype signatures. Also has an online version.
