libextractor

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Introduction

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 or WWW-indexing bots with a universal library to obtain simple keywords to match against queries. libextractor contains a shell-command "extract" that, similar to the well-known "file" command, can extract meta-data from a file an print the results to stdout.

libextractor is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Extensive documentation can be found on gnunet.org.

Downloading libextractor

libextractor can be found on ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libextractor/, the GNU mirrors or on gnunet.org.

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Updated: $Date: 2007/02/27 08:13:02 $ $Author: grothoff $