GNU libextractor
libextractor is a library used to extract meta-data from files of arbitrary type. It is designed to use helper-libraries to perform the actual extraction, and to be trivially extendable by linking against external extractors for additional file types. The goal is to provide developers of file-sharing networks, file managers, and WWW-indexing bots with a universal library to obtain meta-data about files. It includes a shell-command and bindings for Java (JNI) and Python.
| Tags | Software Development Libraries Internet Web Indexing/Search Communications File Sharing Text Processing Indexing |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX BSD Unix Linux Windows Windows Mac OS X |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 21 Feb 2009 00:39
Changes: This release fixes various minor bugs in various plugins and the build system. It uses libtool 2.x, which helps fix some issues with multiple threads loading and unloading certain plugins concurrently.
- 03 Nov 2008 05:38
Changes: This release adds support for the S3M, XM, and IT file formats. RPM support now requires librpm. Crashes in the OpenOffice and tiff plugins were fixed.
- 14 Jul 2008 03:56
Changes: This release fixes locale paths (for translations). It also ensures that plugin loading and unloading are thread-safe. Some linkage errors on OpenBSD were resolved. An experimental thumbnail extractor based on ffmpeg was added (but is not enabled by default due to security concerns).
- 27 Apr 2008 08:16
Changes: This release fixes a security issue recently found in the XPDF code (which is not enabled by default).
- 15 Apr 2008 00:32
Changes: Translations into various languages were updated.
- All comments
Recent commentsRe: online demo not working
There are two PDF plugins, one that is quite
simplistic and another one based on code from
xpdf (which has a bad security track record).
Depending on which one I happen to enable on the
website (options to configure), you get more or
less information for PDF files.
> When I upload dmca.pdf all it gives me
> is mimetype. Am I missing something?
online demo not working
When I upload dmca.pdf all it gives me is mimetype. Am I missing something?
Re: Also Requires gobject-2.0
Note that as of 0.5.3 LE still needs gobject-2.0 but the
ordinary shared version will do fine now.
Re: Also Requires gobject-2.0
Well, gobject-2.0 is part of glib, so it is listed as a
dependency. What is more tricky is that we need the
static, relocatable version of the library -- but try to specify
that on freshmeat :-).
Also Requires gobject-2.0
Can't seem to get the OLE2 libraries to compile, make complains:
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lgobject-2.0
Oh, and you may want to include these dependencies within either the README or INSTALL files.