Document

Content definition: Tools that support the preservation of text based data formats such as MS Word or PDF.

Tools for this content type

		Access, Use and Reuse	Create or Receive (Acquire)	Cross-Lifecycle Functions	Dispose	Ingest	Preservation Action	Preservation Planning	Store
3-Heights(TM) PDF Validator	3-Heights(TM) PDF Validator from PDF-Tools AG.					X
ADIGRES	ADIGRES is a powerful cross-platform Document Management System written in Java.	X					X		X
Antiword	Antiword is a free MS Word reader for Linux and RISC OS.						X
Apache PDFBox	JAVA PDF library for creation, manipulation, validation and content extraction of PDF documents			X		X	X
Apache POI - the Java API for Microsoft Documents	The Apache POI Project's mission is to create and maintain Java APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon the Office Open XML standards (OOXML) and Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format (OLE2).			X		X	X
Apryse Server SDK	The Apryse Server SDK is built to support the document lifecycle.	X			X		X
ArchiFiltre	Overview of folder trees with fine diagrams		X				X		X
Barrapres	BarraPres is an open-source software solution developed by the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (Ibict) as part of the Hipátia digital preservation model. Created in partnership with the Court of Justice of the Federal District and Territories (TJDFT), BarraPres supports the implementation of trustworthy digital archival repositories and contributes to the long-term preservation of digital records. Within the Hipátia model, BarraPres functions as an integration layer between records management, digital preservation, and access environments. It helps automate the transfer of digital objects and their associated metadata between institutional systems and preservation platforms, such as Archivematica. This integration is essential for maintaining the authenticity, integrity, reliability, and accessibility of digital records over time. The Hipátia model is structured around five main phases: archival preparation, computational preparation, extraction of digital objects, preservation, and dissemination. By connecting these stages and supporting interoperability among different systems, BarraPres helps organizations establish more consistent, secure, and sustainable digital preservation workflows.		X	X
BorgFormat	A web application and service that combines multiple tools for format identification and validation.					X
CSV Validator	Validation of CSV files against user-defined schema					X
Calibre	An e-book management tool, including viewer, migration, and file conversion features among others.						X
Catdoc & xls2csv	catdoc is a program that reads one or more Microsoft Word files and outputs text to standard output.						X
Converseen	A GUI for ImageMagick supporting mass operations						X
DFG Viewer	Browser-based viewer for digital objects	X
Dependency Discovery Tool	The Dependency Discovery Tool searches through binary office files (.doc, .xls and .ppt) and tries to find any documents or files that are linked to the document.					X
Developer Tools in QA: Novice's Toolkit	A collaborative document which non-developers can adapt to record QA methods using built-in browser developer tools.					X	X
DiPS (Digital Preservation Solution)	DiPS (OAIS compliant Digital Preservation Solution)	X	X	X	X	X	X		X
DiscMaster	Website to browse and search vintage computer files from archive.org			X
EpubCheck	Validator for EPUB files			X		X
Exempi	Exempi is a library for handling XMP metadata, based on the Adobe XMP SDK			X		X
ExifTool	Properties extraction, identification, metadata editing			X		X	X
Filestar	Universal file converter for 900+ file types.			X		X	X
Flint	Validates a file against a policy, using common validation tools					X
GImageReader	A customisable GUI for Tesseract		X
Hiberden	Hiberden is a desktop application for archiving files to LTO tape, local disk, NAS, and S3-compatible cloud storage, with checksum-based read-back verification and 3-2-1 coverage tracking in a single catalog.					X			X
IText	PDF library for manipulation, content extraction and creation			X		X
KOST-Val	KOST-Val is an open source validator for different file formats (TIFF, SIARD, PDF/A, JP2, JPEG) and Submission Information Package (SIP).					X	X
Kraken	Open Source turn-key OCR system forked from ocropus		X
LegacyFileConverter	Converts document formats to RTF						X
Library of Congress Newspaper Viewer	The Library of Congress Newspaper Viewer is a web application used to ingest and view digitized newspaper pages meeting the National Digital Newspaper Program specification.	X
Libreoffice	An office suite with command line options for PDF/A conversions						X
Libsafe	libsafe allows the organizations to create a full OAIS compliant Archive, including active and passive digital preservation workflows and is particularly suited for master image files of digitizing processes.			X
Limb Processing	Software for processing, enhancing and converting cultural heritage into digital cultural heritage		X			X
LuraDocument PDF Compressor	LuraDocument PDF Compressor is a document conversion engine.						X
METS Navigator	METS-based system for displaying and navigating sets of page images or other multi-part digital objects.					X	X
MPP Viewer	MPP Viewer is a viewer for Microsoft Project files	X					X
Metadata Interrogator	The Metadata Interrogator is a standalone, offline GUI tool for extracting and analysing metadata from a wide variety of file formats.			X		X
Metadata++	Freeware tool to view, edit, modify, extract, copy metadata of various formats.			X		X
Metadata2Go	Web-based EXIF data viewer			X		X
MuPDF	Free and open source rendering engine for PDFs, EPUBs and XPS documents.						X
Nitro Pro	A PDF handling tool including PDF/A						X
ODF Validator	ODF Validator is a tool that validates OpenDocument files and checks them for certain conformance criteria.			X		X
Officeparser.py	officerparser.py is a python script that parses the format of OLE compound documents used by Microsoft Office applications.			X		X
PDF Tools (by Didier Stevens)	Tools for parsing and analysing PDF documents			X		X
PDFTron PDF-A Manager	PDF/A Manager is a PDF/A (ISO 19005) validation and conversion software.					X	X
PDFsam	PDFsam splits and merges PDF files	X			X		X
Pandoc	If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife.						X
PdfaPilot	pdfaPilot: Conversion of documents and emails into robust, searchable PDF or PDF/A files			X		X	X
Pdfcpu	A Go library and command line tool for PDF processing incl. validation			X		X
Pdftk	PDF manipulation tool			X		X	X
Peepdf	peepdf is a Python tool to explore PDF files in order to find out if the file can be harmful or not.			X		X
Python XMP Toolkit	Library for working with XMP metadata, as well as reading/writing XMP metadata stored in many different file formats			X		X
Qpdf	QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files			X		X	X
Rescarta	The ResCarta Tools software empowers users to create non-proprietary digital objects with LOC standard METS, MODS, MIX and AudioMD metadata from existing TIFF, JPEG, PDF and WAV data through user-friendly interfaces.	X		X
Sumatra PDF	Open source, fast, PDF and eBook viewer						X
Tabula	Extract tabular data from PDF files		X
VERT	VERT is a file conversion utility that uses WebAssembly to convert files on your device instead of a cloud.						X
VeraPDF	PDF/A validation tool					X
Veridian	Online search, discovery, and display of digitized newspaper collections	X
WordHoard	WordHoard is an application for the close reading and scholarly analysis of deeply tagged texts.	X		X		X
Xpdf	Open source PDF viewer that includes PDF information extractor and font analyzer			X		X	X
Yara	YARA is a tool that allows the identification of files that match user-defined textual or binary patterns			X				X