Dependency Analysis

Function definition: Tools for identifying essential information that resides externally to a digital object, or for identifying dependent processes such as which DLLs are required by a Windows process.

Lifecycle stage: Ingest

Tools for this function

Tool	Purpose
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.
Nuclear Processor	Process/module manager for Windows, with features such as Kill/Resume/Suspend thread of a process and unload DLL files
PDF Tools (by Didier Stevens)	Tools for parsing and analysing PDF documents
PET (PERICLES Extraction Tool)	A tool to capture contextual information in a sheer curation scenario