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File Type Detection Libraries

Libraries that determine file formats by analyzing file signatures, magic numbers, or binary buffers from files or streams.

14 projects

4,112 contributors

$22M

OpenImageIO

The mission of the Project is to develop software to read, write, and manipulate image files of any image file format relevant to vfx / animation via a format- agnostic API, with a feature set, scalability, and robustness needed for production.

Contributors

1,023

Organizations

313

Software value

$8.4M

file-type

A Node.js package that detects the file type of a Buffer/Uint8Array by checking the magic number signature, supporting various file formats including images, audio, video, archives, and documents

Contributors

679

Organizations

225

Software value

$113K

Apache Tika

Apache Tika is a content detection and analysis framework that detects and extracts metadata and text from various file formats. It provides a unified interface for parsing different file types including documents, images, audio, and video files, enabling applications to process content without needing to understand the underlying file formats.

Contributors

510

Organizations

109

Software value

$8.5M

MediaInfo

Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

Contributors

483

Organizations

65

Software value

$3.8M

identify

File identification library for Python

Contributors

373

Organizations

145

Software value

$239K

Mime

Mime types for JavaScript

Contributors

362

Organizations

158

Software value

$65K

image-size

Node module for detecting image dimensions

Contributors

342

Organizations

131

Software value

$66K

mimetype

A Go library for detecting MIME types and file extensions by examining binary file content. It supports over 1500 file types and provides both synchronous and asynchronous detection methods.

Contributors

236

Organizations

75

Software value

$219K

interpret

A dictionary of file extensions and associated module loaders.

Contributors

104

Organizations

64

Software value

$60K

Binary Extensions

List of binary file extensions

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LibreDWG

Official mirror of libredwg. With CI hooks and nightly releases. PR's ok

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

loaders.gl

Loaders for big data visualization. Website:

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