Package: extract (1:1.11-2)

[ Source: libextractor  ]

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, MAN, PS, DVI, OLE2 (DOC, XLS, PPT), OpenOffice (sxw), StarOffice (sdw), FLAC, MP3 (ID3v1 and ID3v2), OGG, WAV, S3M (Scream Tracker 3), XM (eXtended Module), IT (Impulse Tracker), NSF(E) (NES music), SID (C64 music), EXIV2, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, DEB, RPM, TAR(.GZ), LZH, LHA, RAR, ZIP, CAB, 7-ZIP, AR, MTREE, PAX, CPIO, ISO9660, SHAR, RAW, XAR, FLV, 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: use::scanning, works-with::file

Other Packages Related to extract

• dep: libc6 (>= 2.17) [arm64, ppc64el]

  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
  also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb

  dep: libc6 (>= 2.4) [not arm64, ppc64el]

• dep: libextractor3 (>= 0.6.3)

  extracts meta-data from files of arbitrary type (library)

• rec: libextractor-plugins-all

  extracts meta-data from files of arbitrary type (plugins)

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