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Determine file type from its content (not trusting the .extension)
I used to work for the French National Library, to build an digital archive system that contains not only digitized books but also millions of digital artefacts with all kinds of strange file types. ...
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Open and visually browse large CSV files
I've been using EmEditor for years. Can open practically any size file (up to 248GB realistically) and can split CSV and other delimited text into columns. With tons of other features.
There's a ...
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ODT (LibreOffice) support on iOS
There are a few solutions that try to offer the full LibreOffice experience on Android / iOS, but those are usually very big and a bit clunky to use.
As a lightweight solution on both iOS and Android ...
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Determine file type from its content (not trusting the .extension)
file is available on Linux and Mac, plus Windows plus Cygwin or similar.
It is free, open source and identifies files via magic number mostly.
Its database of formats is not very extensive.
It ...
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Determine file type from its content (not trusting the .extension)
There are several tools out there that could be useful. Here is a page from forensicsWiki that provides a consolidated list.
Apache Tika seems to be the most promising since it is open source, cross ...
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Tool to validate the integrity of my data files
The File Information Tool Set (FITS) bundles an array of tools for identifying and validating files, as well as extracting technical metadata. Basically, it generates an XML file, with the outputs ...
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C/C++ header-only library to read and write image files?
You could try CImg. It uses C++ class templates to represent images, with T meaning what each pixel would be stored as. It consists of only a single header CImg.h. Great features of it include how ...
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Open files in different software based on file signature (not extension) in Windows
Before Software Recommendations existed, I posted the same question on SuperUser, and ended up solving it myself with a python script:
https://superuser.com/a/317927/13889
which is now here:
https://...
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svg 2 dxf conversion
The company I work for has a library for Windows that supports many vector formats, including SVG and DXF.
Although the vector DLLs are mainly for C/C++, it should be easy to call them from other ...
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Looking for Software that does "Part Oriented" Text File Encryption and/or Archive File Encryption
What you're looking for sounds awfully specific... it's unlikely that something exists that will do exactly what you want out of the box. However, if you're willing to write some code, this might not ...
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Tool to validate the integrity of my data files
There is a ready-made solution. Use Veretino. A cross-platform open source app for calculating and verifying a large number of checksums, and generally verifying the integrity of a large amount of ...
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ODT (LibreOffice) support on iOS
There is an app for ios named OOReader that will read ODT files. Its free and is available from the app store.
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Program that can display real types of files in a directory
The Linux/Unix/Gnu file utility can do that , and it should be available in the Windows/Linux Subsystem thing. If not, there were Win32 builds available which may work on a Win 10 64bit machine, and ...
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need software for unknown audio format
Try Audacity. https://www.audacityteam.org/
Import as raw 8-bit file.
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Automatically detecting and carving images from .doc, .docx and spreadsheets
Python docx2txt is exactly what you're looking for.
Usage: docx2txt -i /tmp/img_dir file.docx
Multiple files may be strung together and processed, either with a BATCH (.bat) script, SHEBANG (.sh) ...
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JSON-like format which supports binary data
I think that the best option for you is BSON:
BSON is based on JSON so it will be an easier transition from JSON than Protocol Buffers.
This page links to implementations in both python and Java (and ...
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Files recovered but won't open
Nowadays this is very often caused by TRIM.
TRIM is an ATA command which allows the OS to inform the drive about ranges of LBA sectors the drive can use as it pleases. This is useful for SSD drives as ...
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2d game engines that support reading external resources
I've used LibGDX, and also some other popular frameworks (Cocos2d-x and Haxe Flixel being the more prominent) but it always boils down to having good tools and nice ecosystem to work with, i.e. level ...
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2d game engines that support reading external resources
Why not convert the files as needed, perhaps in memory, with a library for file-format conversion?
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Line-based 3D modeler (alternative to Sketchup)
Blender will read in STL files I believe - just checked on the Blender.org page, and yes, it does:
Alembic, 3D Studio (3DS), COLLADA (DAE), Filmbox (FBX), Autodesk (DXF), Wavefront (OBJ), DirectX (x),...
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