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| Tool | Function | Purpose | ToolStatus |
|---|---|---|---|
| HxC Floppy Emulator toolkit | Appraisal Rendering Forensic | Provides comprehensive support for working with floppy disk images—importing and converting multiple formats, analyzing streams, creating custom layouts, and performing low-level disk inspections. | |
| HxD | Binary & Hexidecimal Editing | Free Hex- and Ram-Editor | |
| I2 | Forensic | i2 is a provider of intelligence and investigation management software for law enforcement, defense, national security and private sector organizations. | |
| ILookPI | Forensic | ILookPI provides a fully programmable IDE environment with customizable tool capabilities. | |
| ISOlyzer | Metadata Extraction | Verifies if the file size of a CD / DVD image ("ISO image") is consistent with the information in its filesystem-level headers. | Maintained |
| IText | Metadata Extraction | PDF library for manipulation, content extraction and creation | |
| InBoxer | Access Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing | InBoxer is a next generation email archiving, IM archiving, e-discovery, and policy management system. | |
| Index.dat Analyzer v2.5 | Forensic Metadata Extraction | Index.dat Analyzer is a tool to view, examine and delete contents of index.dat files. | |
| InfinaDyne | Forensic | InfinaDyne's forensic products are focused on government and law enforcement examining various types of media and intent on collecting evidence in a thorough, secure and trustworthy manner. | |
| Invenio | Preservation System | Invenio is a free software suite enabling you to run your own digital library or document repository on the web. | |
| JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment) | Validation Encryption Detection File Format Identification Metadata Extraction | JHOVE provides functions to perform format-specific identification, validation, and characterization of digital objects. | |
| JHOVE2 | Validation Encryption Detection File Format Identification Metadata Extraction | JHOVE2 allows data curators to characterise the digital objects in their repositories. | |
| JWAT | Validation File Format Migration Metadata Extraction | Java Web Archive Toolkit | |
| Jp2StructCheck | Validation Metadata Extraction Quality Assurance | Simple JP2 file structure checker | |
| Jpylyzer | Validation Metadata Extraction Quality Assurance | JP2 validation + properties extraction | |
| KEA (Keyphrase Extraction Algorithm) | Forensic | KEA is an algorithm for extracting keyphrases from text documents. | |
| Keith Humphreys' PhraseRate | Metadata Extraction | PhraseRate is a program, developed by Keith Humphreys, for extracting a set of meaningful, attractive keywords and key phrases from a web page describing the content of that page. | |
| LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) | Access Preservation System Storage | LOCKSS software allows libraries to create preserved digital collections out of materials that would otherwise be accessible only through a licensed academic subscription. | |
| Libewf | Forensic | Libewf is a library for support of the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF), it support both the SMART (EWF-S01) and EnCase (EWF-E01) format. | |
| Libsafe | Preservation System | 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. | |
| Lingfo | File Format Migration Metadata Extraction | Lingfo provides a library for developers to use to extract information from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files. | |
| METS Reader Writer | Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing | Python library for processing and outputting METS/PREMIS XML according to the Archivematica METS profile. | |
| MP3::Tag | Metadata Extraction | MP3::Tag is a module for reading tags of MP3 audio files. | |
| MRU-Blaster | Forensic Redaction | MRU-Blaster is a program made to do one large task - detect and clean MRU (most recently used) lists on your computer. | |
| MailStore Home | Discovery File Management Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing | Unifies your private emails into one searchable, platform-independent repository | |
| MakeStaticSite | Web Capture Personal Archiving Data capture and Deposit Managing Active Research Data Rendering | MakeStaticSite is a command-line tool for generating and deploying refined static versions of both existing websites — typically dynamic, i.e. depend on server-side scripting and databases — and sites archived by the Wayback Machine. | |
| McAfee Free Tools | Forensic | Free Tools [See specifically Foresnic Tools] | |
| Mdqc | Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing Quality Assurance | Tool for managing and comparing digital asset metadata | |
| MediaInfo | Metadata Extraction | Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file. | |
| Mendeley | Academic Social Networking Citation and Impact Tracking | Mendeley is a combination web service and desktop application that allows users to create, manage, and share collections of references. | |
| Merritt Repository Service | Preservation System | Merritt is a cost-effective repository service from the University of California Curation Center (UC3) that lets the UC community manage, archive, and share its valuable digital content. | |
| Metadata Extraction Tool | Metadata Extraction | Metadata Extraction Tool automatically extracts a limited set of metadata from the headers of digital files. | |
| Metadata Interrogator | Metadata Extraction | The Metadata Interrogator is a standalone, offline GUI tool for extracting and analysing metadata from a wide variety of file formats. | |
| Metadata transformer | Metadata Extraction | A simple tool for creating new CSV and HTML reports based on the metadata files generated by the Data Accessioner | |
| Metadata++ | Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing Personal Archiving | Freeware tool to view, edit, modify, extract, copy metadata of various formats. | |
| Metadata2Go | Metadata Extraction | Web-based EXIF data viewer | |
| Microsoft Office 2003 Add-in: Word Redaction v1.2 | Forensic Redaction | Use the Word 2003 Redaction Add-in to hide text within Microsoft Office Word 2003 documents. | |
| Microsoft Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden Data | Forensic Redaction | With this add-in you can permanently remove hidden data and collaboration data, such as change tracking and comments, from Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint files. | |
| Minimum Preservation Tool | Fixity Preservation System | The Minimum Preservation Tool (MPT) can be used to create an interim preservation storage environment for files awaiting preservation in a longer term repository solution. It supports checksum generation, fixity checking, and replication across two or more storage nodes. | |
| Mink | Access Discovery Personal Archiving | Chrome extension that uses Memento to indicate that a page a user is viewing on the live web has an archived copy and to give the user access to the copy | |
| Muse | Personal Archiving | A tool used for personal archiving of email. | |
| MyExperiment | Academic Social Networking Managing Active Research Data Workflow Workflow and Lab Notebook Management | myExperiment is an online social networking service aimed at scientific researchers; the site fosters collaboration by allowing members to share scientific workflows, experiment plans, and other digital objects. | |
| NARA File Analyzer and Metadata Harvester | Fixity File Format Identification Metadata Extraction | NARA File Analyzer and Metadata Harvester allows a user to analyze the contents of a file system or external drive and generates statistics about the contents of the contained directories. | |
| NARA Video Frame Analyzer | Metadata Extraction Quality Assurance | NARA Video Frame Analyzer analyzes technical properties of individual frames of a video file in order to detect quality issues within digitized video files. | |
| NESSTAR | Metadata Processing Service | Nesstar suite is an online publishing platform for organisations wishing to share datasets both internally and with the wider web. | |
| NSRL (National Software Reference Library) | Forensic | The NSRL provides a large data set of metadata on computer files which can be used to identify the files and their provenance | |
| Nanite | File Format Identification Metadata Extraction | A friendly swarm of format-identifying robots | |
| Nextflow | Workflow | Data-driven computational pipelines | |
| OCFA (Open Computer Forensics Architecture) | Forensic | Open Computer Forensics Architecture is a modular computer forensics framework. | |
| ODF Validator | Validation Metadata Extraction | ODF Validator is a tool that validates OpenDocument files and checks them for certain conformance criteria. | |
| OSFMount | Disk Imaging Forensic | disk image file mounting | |
| Officeparser.py | File Format Identification Metadata Extraction | officerparser.py is a python script that parses the format of OLE compound documents used by Microsoft Office applications. | |
| OpenJPEG | File Format Migration Metadata Extraction | The OpenJPEG library is an open-source JPEG 2000 codec written in C language. | |
| PDF Tools (by Didier Stevens) | Validation Dependency Analysis Metadata Extraction | Tools for parsing and analysing PDF documents | |
| PET (PERICLES Extraction Tool) | Dependency Analysis Metadata Extraction | A tool to capture contextual information in a sheer curation scenario | |
| Package Handler | Validation File Management Metadata Processing Personal Archiving Appraisal | View, create, edit, and validate Swiss archival packages | |
| Pagelyzer | Metadata Extraction Quality Assurance | Suite of tools for detecting changes in web pages and their rendering | |
| Paraben | Forensic | Paraben provides forensics tools. | |
| PdfaPilot | Validation File Format Migration Metadata Extraction | pdfaPilot: Conversion of documents and emails into robust, searchable PDF or PDF/A files | |
| Pdfcpu | Validation Metadata Extraction | A Go library and command line tool for PDF processing incl. validation | |
| Pdftk | Metadata Extraction Repair | PDF manipulation tool | |
| Peepdf | Metadata Extraction | peepdf is a Python tool to explore PDF files in order to find out if the file can be harmful or not. | |
| Perma.cc | Citation and Impact Tracking Personal Archiving | A tool that captures, stores, plays-back and provides a new URL for web citation. Built and maintained at the Harvard Law School Library. | |
| Pre-Ingest Tool | Validation Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing | A tool for generating an OAIS SIP for digital preservation. It produces METS document that contains metadata for digital preservation. | |
| Premissh | Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing | Premissh is a simple prototype tool for automatically creating PREMIS XML from a file, using DROID, BASH and XSLT. | |
| Preservica | Preservation System Service | Preservica is a complete OAIS Digital Preservation system available on the cloud (hosted in US, EU, CA or AUS) and on-premise. It is trusted by over 1000 organisations across 5 continents to preserve collections both large (>6Pb) and small (few 100kb). | |
| Prodiscover | Forensic | Prodiscover provides a set of features and toolkits for Computer Forensics and Incident Response | |
| Proofpoint Enterprise Archive | Discovery Storage Service | Proofpoint Enterprise Archive is a SaaS email archiving solution that addresses three key challenges eDiscovery, regulatory compliance and email storage management without the headaches of managing archiving in-house. | |
| PyFlag | Forensic | FLAG (Forensic and Log Analysis GUI) is an advanced forensic tool for the analysis of large volumes of log files and forensic investigations. | |
| Python XMP Toolkit | Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing | Library for working with XMP metadata, as well as reading/writing XMP metadata stored in many different file formats | |
| Qpdf | Decryption Metadata Extraction | QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files | |
| RAID (Real-time Analytical Intelligence Database) | Forensic | RAID is a relational database used to record key pieces of information and to quickly identify links among people, places, businesses, financial accounts, telephone numbers, and other investigative information. | |
| RATOM | Discovery Metadata Extraction Appraisal | Review, Appraisal, and Triage of Mail (RATOM) is software to assist archives and other collecting organizations with email analysis, selection, and appraisal tasks | |
| RCS (The Revision Control System) | Version Control | The Revision Control System (RCS) manages multiple revisions of files. | |
| RackSpace | Storage Service | RackSpace provices cloud based services to businesses of all sizes through the world. | |
| RapidRedact | Forensic Redaction | The RapidRedact product range provides fast, easy to use redaction tools for irreversibly blanking out (redacting) selected information, author's changes and hidden data from all electronic document types. | |
| Redact-It | Forensic Redaction | Provides Windows desktop and server redaction of PDF, Word, scanned TIFF images. Find, black out and remove content within documents, images or drawings. | |
| Redax | Forensic Redaction | Redax completely redacts (removes) text and graphics from the PDF page. | |
| Regshot | Forensic | Regshot is an open-source (GPL) registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one - done after doing system changes or installing a new software product. | |
| Rescarta | Access Personal Archiving Preservation System | 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. | |
| ResearchGate | Academic Social Networking | ResearchGate is an online professional network for scientists and researchers, particularly employed by those wishing to follow and track the publication outputs of others in their field. | |
| Roda | Preservation System | RODA - Repository of Authentic Digital Objects | |
| Rosetta | Access File Format Migration Metadata Processing Preservation System | Ex Libris Rosetta enables institutions to preserve and provide access to the collections in their care. | |
| Samvera | Preservation System | A digital repository software that offers flexible and rich user interfaces tailored to distinct content types | |
| Sheeko | Annotation Metadata Extraction | Machine learning implementation package to generate descriptive metadata for digitized historical images. | |
| Shotwell | Annotation Metadata Processing Personal Archiving | An open source photo manager capable of describing image collections for archival ingest. | |
| Smithsonian Cook | File Format Migration Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing Rendering Workflow | Processing of 3D model, mesh, and texture data including the option to define custom processing workflows, where a set of files is processed by multiple tools. | |
| SobekCM | Access Discovery Metadata Processing Preservation System Quality Assurance | SobekCM is a digital repository and digital scholarship/publishing system which enables easy deposit, preservation, and access for all types of digital content, tailored to the needs of galleries, libraries, archives, museums, scholars, and researchers. | |
| Taverna | Managing Active Research Data Workflow Workflow and Lab Notebook Management | Taverna is a scientific workflow management system designed to assemble, run, document and share sequences sequences of web services and scripts. | |
| The Carve Path Zero-storage Library and filesystem | Forensic | LibCarvPath is a library for computer forensics carving tools. | |
| The Open Video Digital Library Toolkit | Preservation System | The Open Video Digital Library Toolkit project is intended to provide museums, libraries and other institutions holding moving image collections tools to more easily create Web-based digital video libraries. | |
| The Sleuth Kit | Forensic | Collection of command line computer forensics digital investigation tools. | |
| TweakPNG | Forensic Metadata Extraction Validation | TweakPNG examines different chunks in a PNG file and decode the information contained in each of these. | |
| UKWA Access API | Persistent Identification Service | Web archives access API | |
| Vitam | Preservation System | Vitam is an open source software able to manage and preserve digital records and archives (back-end). | |
| WARCreate | Data capture and Deposit Personal Archiving Web Capture | Google Chrome browser extension for creating WARC files from web pages | |
| Warctools | Validation File Format Migration Metadata Extraction | Command line tools and libraries for handling and manipulating WARC files (and HTTP contents) | |
| Web Archive Discovery | Content Profiling Discovery File Format Identification Metadata Extraction | Indexing and discovery tools for web archives. | |
| WinHex | Binary & Hexidecimal Editing Forensic | WinHex is in its core a universal hexadecimal editor, particularly helpful in the realm of computer forensics, data recovery, low-level data processing, and IT security. | |
| Windows IR/CF Tools | Forensic | Windows based forensic tools |