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*[[FI Tools]] (Windows, commercial, [http://www.forensicinnovations.com/fitools.html website])
 
*[[FI Tools]] (Windows, commercial, [http://www.forensicinnovations.com/fitools.html website])
 
* [[G-Spot]] (Windows, freeware, [http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ website]): Identifies [[audio]] and [[video]] codecs need to play a media file.
 
* [[G-Spot]] (Windows, freeware, [http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ website]): Identifies [[audio]] and [[video]] codecs need to play a media file.
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* [[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."
 
* [[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

Revision as of 02:28, 19 December 2012

Software > File identification software

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.
  • FI Tools (Windows, commercial, website)
  • G-Spot (Windows, freeware, website): Identifies audio and video codecs need to play a media file.
  • 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."
  • TrID (Windows/Linux, free for non-commercial use, website): identifies files using a database of filetype signatures. Also has an online version.

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