How to Tell a File’s Format: Five Open Source Tools

course logoAre you a professional or student who needs to know software that can identify the format of files? My course on Udemy, How to Tell a File’s Format: Five Open Source Tools will give you a useful introduction to five widely used, free and open source, tools:

  • file
  • DROID
  • ExifTool
  • JHOVE
  • Apache Tika

You’ll learn how to download and install the software, and how to use it to identify file formats. Both command line and GUI versions are covered where they’re available. Since I wrote most of the code for JHOVE, I’ve included a bit of extra advice on how to make the best use of it. I’ll be available to everyone who takes the course to answer questions.

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