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|purpose=A PRONOM based, command line, file format identification tool written in Python | |purpose=A PRONOM based, command line, file format identification tool written in Python | ||
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|homepage=http://www.openpreservation.org/software/fido | |homepage=http://www.openpreservation.org/software/fido | ||
|license=Apache 2.0 Open Source License | |license=Apache 2.0 Open Source License | ||
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+ | [[Category:Metadata Extraction]] | ||
+ | [[Category:File Format Identification]] | ||
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= Description = | = Description = | ||
− | FIDO (Format Identification for Digital Objects) is a simple format identification CLI tool for digital objects that uses [[DROID (Digital Record Object Identification)#PRONOM|PRONOM]] signatures converted to regular expressions. | + | FIDO (Format Identification for Digital Objects) is a simple format identification CLI tool for digital objects that uses [[DROID (Digital Record Object Identification)#PRONOM|PRONOM]] signatures converted to regular expressions. Functionally of FIDO can be compared with [[DROID (Digital Record Object Identification)]], sans the GUI. |
FIDO is free, Apache 2.0 licensed, easy to install, and runs on any platform with Python installed. Most importantly, FIDO is very fast. | FIDO is free, Apache 2.0 licensed, easy to install, and runs on any platform with Python installed. Most importantly, FIDO is very fast. | ||
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FIDO is able to identify container based (compound) formats such as Office documents and includes functionality to update PRONOM signatures. | FIDO is able to identify container based (compound) formats such as Office documents and includes functionality to update PRONOM signatures. | ||
− | [ | + | [http://www.techmaurice.com/fidoo/ FIDOO] is webpage based service that acts as a simple to use front end to FIDO. |
=== History === | === History === | ||
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