File Format Migration
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| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
| AccessToSiard | A collection of scripts to automatically convert MS Access files to the SIARD format. |
| Aid4Mail | For migrating or normalizing email formats |
| Antiword | Antiword is a free MS Word reader for Linux and RISC OS. |
| Apache PDFBox | JAVA PDF library for creation, manipulation, validation and content extraction of PDF documents |
| 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). |
| Archivematica | Archivematica is a digital preservation system that automates the process of preparing digital objects for ingest into a repository and an access system |
| Audio/Video to WAV Converter | This tool converts audio and video files to WAV format. |
| CDS Convert | CDS Convert is a suite of tools that allow conversion of documents, presentations and images between different software formats. |
| CHRONOS | Database Retirement, Partial and Ongoing Database Archiving, Application Retirement. |
| CSV export form for Microsoft Access | A Microsoft Access form to export all database tables to interoperable CSV files. |
| CSV2SIARD | A tool to create SIARD containers from CSV files. |
| Calibre | An e-book management tool, including viewer, migration, and file conversion features among others. |
| Catdoc & xls2csv | catdoc is a program that reads one or more Microsoft Word files and outputs text to standard output. |
| CloudCompare | CloudCompare is a tool for editing and processing 3D point clouds and triangular meshes. |
| Converseen | A GUI for ImageMagick supporting mass operations |
| DANS DBF | DANS DBF Library is a Java library for reading and writing xBase database files. |
| DANS MIXED | Migration to Intermediate XML for Electronic Data. |
| DBPTK Developer | DBPTK Developer - library and command-line tool for exection of database preservation actions |
| DBeaver | Multi-platform database tool that supports migration and data management |
| DIMAG | A software suite supporting archives with preservation of digital information for eternity |
| DMC (DBpoweramp Music Converter) | dBpoweramp Music Converter (dMC) is an audio conversion tool. |
| DNS | DNS - DA NRW Software Suite |
| Db-preservation-toolkit | Enables conversion between database formats or dumping from live database systems for the purposes of preservation. |
| DeepArc | Intended for preserving web sites from the back-end, this is a database-to-XML curation tool. |
| DiPS (Digital Preservation Solution) | DiPS (OAIS compliant Digital Preservation Solution) |
| Digital Preservation Recorder | Digital Preservation Recorder (DPR) is free and open source software developed by the National Archives of Australia to aid in the long term preservation of digital records. |
| DocMorph: Electronic Document Conversion | The U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) document conversion tools make the exchange and use of biomedical library electronic information easier for librarians, library users, and the general public |
| Docuteam cosmos | docuteam cosmos is a comprehensive, modular software solution for the operation of digital long-term archives based on the OAIS standard (Open Archival Information System, ISO 14721:2012). |
| EXIF to DC XML normaliser | Extract EXIF data and normalise it to DC XML. |
| Easy CD-DA Extractor | Easy CD-DA Extractor is CD Ripper, Music Converter, Audio Converter, Metadata Editor, and CD/DVD burning software. |
| Emailchemy | Converts proprietary emails to standard portable formats |
| Exact Audio Copy | Exact Audio Copy is an audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives on Windows only. |
| FFAStrans | Task automation engine, mostly used in audio and video visual content management. |
| FFmpeg | FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. |
| Filestar | Universal file converter for 900+ file types. |
| Grok | JPEG 2000 SDK, includes encoder/decoder |
| HandBrake | Converts video data into widely accepted formats. |
| ImageMagick | ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. |
| Ingestr | ingestr is a command-line application that allows ingesting or copying data from any source into any destination database. |
| JJ2000 | Pure Java implementation of a JPEG2000 decoder |
| JWAT | Java Web Archive Toolkit |
| Kakadu | JPEG 2000 SDK, includes encoder/decoder |
| LegacyFileConverter | Converts document formats to RTF |
| Libreoffice | An office suite with command line options for PDF/A conversions |
| Lingfo | Lingfo provides a library for developers to use to extract information from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files. |
| LuraDocument PDF Compressor | LuraDocument PDF Compressor is a document conversion engine. |
| MDB/ACCDB Viewer | MDB Viewer opens Microsoft Access 1997-2013 databases on your Macintosh, and views and exports all tables in Access databases. |
| MIXED (Migration to Intermediate XML for Electronic Data) | MIXED (Migration to Intermediate XML for Electronic Data) is a web service that converts tabular data files such as spreadsheets and databases to the Standard Data Format for Preservation (SDFP), a supplier-independent XML format. |
| MPG321 | mpg321 is a command-line mp3 player. mpg321 is used for frontends, as an mp3 player and as an mp3 to wave file decoder. |
| MPP Viewer | MPP Viewer is a viewer for Microsoft Project files |
| MSIL Disassembler (Ildasm.exe) | The MSIL Disassembler is a companion tool to the MSIL Assembler (Ilasm. |
| Nitro Pro | A PDF handling tool including PDF/A |
| Open Office | OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. |
| Open Video Converter | This tool is for video conversion, splitting and editing. |
| OpenJPEG | The OpenJPEG library is an open-source JPEG 2000 codec written in C language. |
| OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-in for Office | The goal for this project is to provide translators to allow for interoperability between applications based on ODF (OpenDocument) 1. |
| Oracle Outside In Technology | Outside In Technology is a suite of software development kits (SDKs) that provides developers with a comprehensive solution to access, transform and control the contents of over 500 unstructured file formats. |
| PDFTron PDF-A Manager | PDF/A Manager is a PDF/A (ISO 19005) validation and conversion software. |
| Pandoc | A universal converter that converts files from one markup format into another |
| PdfaPilot | pdfaPilot: Conversion of documents and emails into robust, searchable PDF or PDF/A files |
| PiM (PREMIS in METS) Toolbox | PREMIS in METS Toolbox was developed to support the implementation of PREMIS in the METS container format. |
| QGIS | QGIS is a Free and Open Source GIS application that supports a wide range of raster and vector spatial data types. |
| RODA DBML | Migrates databases to an XML schema, DBML. Can then provide access by dumping DBML to MySQL and showing it in phpMyAdmin. |
| Rosetta | Ex Libris Rosetta enables institutions to preserve and provide access to the collections in their care. |
| SIARD Suite | SIARD Suite is a freeware tool for the conversion of contents of relations databases into the SIARD format. |
| SPARQLing Unicorn QGIS Plugin | Plugin for QGIS. Fetches data from Wikidata and other Linked Data SPARQL endpoints and adds a new layer in a QGIS project. Just insert a SPARQL query for Geo-Items and get a new vector layer into QGIS. |
| Sling | Sling is a CLI tool that extracts data from a source storage/database and loads it in a target storage/database. |
| Smithsonian Cook | 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. |
| Ssconvert | ssconvert is a command line utility to convert spreadsheet files between various spreadsheet file formats. |
| Switch Audio File Converter | Switch is a universal audio converter that supports a wide range of formats. |
| TOMES (Transforming Online Mail with Embedded Semantics) | A package of open source tools for handling the preservation of government email records |
| UniConvertor | a Universal vector graphics format translator |
| WMDecode | WMDecode is used for extracting files from winmail. |
| Warcit | Warcit is a command-line tool that converts directories (including nested directories), files (including HTML or other web assets and data files) and ZIP files to Web Archives (WARC). |
| Warctools | Command line tools and libraries for handling and manipulating WARC files (and HTTP contents) |
| XMediaRecode | A GUI platform for video conversion and cutting. |
| Xena | Detecting the file formats of digital objects; converting digital objects into open formats for preservation. |
| XnConvert | Cross-platform batch image converter |