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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.

by The Linux Foundation

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20 projects ・ Updated 14 Mar 2025

Only Linux Foundation projects

Project

Contributors

Organizations

Software value

OpenImageIO

1,027

314

$8.4M

file-type

681

224

$146K

Apache Tika

505

116

$10M

MediaInfo

492

$3.8M

python-magic

455

171

$35K

identify

385

153

$240K

Mime

362

156

$65K

image-size

343

131

$66K

fontkit

338

118

$410K

LibreDWG

324

$40M

RHash

255

$881K

FileIO.jl

253

101

$93K

mimetype

242

$223K

filetype.py

202

$69K

mime-types for Ruby

185

$112K

146

$3.2M

interpret

104

$60K

Is Text or Binary?

$32K

Binary Extensions

loaders.gl

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