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Package: extract (0.5.23+dfsg-3)

displays meta-data from files of arbitrary type

Similar to the well-known "file" command, extract can display meta-data from a file and print the results to stdout.

Currently, libextractor supports the following formats: HTML, PDF, PS, OLE2 (DOC, XLS, PPT), OpenOffice (sxw), StarOffice (sdw), DVI, MAN, MP3 (ID3v1 and ID3v2), OGG, WAV, EXIV2, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, DEB, RPM, TAR(.GZ), ZIP, ELF, REAL, RIFF (AVI), MPEG, QT and ASF.

Also, various additional MIME types are detected. It can also be used to compute hash functions (SHA-1, MD5, ripemd160).

Tags: User Interface: Command Line, Role: Program, Scope: Utility, Purpose: Scanning, Works with: Files

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  • dep: dpkg (>= 1.15.4)
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    or install-info
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  • dep: hurd
    The GNU Hurd
    also a virtual package provided by hurd-udeb
  • dep: libbz2-1.0
    high-quality block-sorting file compressor library - runtime
  • dep: libc0.3 (>= 2.10)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc0.3-udeb
  • dep: libextractor-plugins (= 0.5.23+dfsg-3)
    extracts meta-data from files of arbitrary type (plugins)
  • dep: libextractor1c2a
    extracts meta-data from files of arbitrary type (library)
  • dep: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0)
    The GLib library of C routines
  • dep: libgsf-1-114 (>= 1.14.16)
    Structured File Library - runtime version
  • dep: libltdl7 (>= 2.2.6a)
    A system independent dlopen wrapper for GNU libtool
  • dep: libxml2 (>= 2.6.27)
    GNOME XML library
  • dep: zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
    compression library - runtime

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