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| Tool | Function | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| DeepArc | File Format Migration Web Capture | Intended for preserving web sites from the back-end, this is a database-to-XML curation tool. |
| Demystify | Metadata Extraction Content Profiling De-Duplication | Format Identification Analysis and Reporting |
| Detox | File Management | The detox utility renames files to make them easier to work with under Unix and Unix-like operating systems. |
| Developer Tools in QA: Novice's Toolkit | Quality Assurance | A collaborative document which non-developers can adapt to record QA methods using built-in browser developer tools. |
| DiPS (Digital Preservation Solution) | Access Active Data Storage File Format Identification File Format Migration File Management Metadata Extraction Preservation System Secure Deletion Service Storage Transfer Validation Workflow | DiPS (OAIS compliant Digital Preservation Solution) |
| Digital Preservation Recorder | Workflow File Format Migration | 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. |
| Dioscuri | Emulation | Dioscuri is a computer hardware emulator, specifically designed to be used as part of a digital preservation strategy. |
| Directory List & Print | Metadata Extraction File Management | A universal metadata extractor |
| DiskView | File Management | DiskView shows you a graphical map of your disk, allowing you to determine where a file is located or, by clicking on a cluster, seeing which file occupies it. |
| DocMorph: Electronic Document Conversion | File Format Migration | 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 | File Format Migration Preservation System Service Storage Workflow | 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). |
| Docuteam packer | Appraisal Data capture and Deposit File Management Fixity Metadata Processing | Creates and edits SIPs |
| Docworks | OCR Workflow Quality Assurance | Document digitization workflow software |
| Double Commander | Fixity File Copy Batch Rename File Management De-Duplication | Open source file manager with two panels side by side |
| DupeGuru | De-Duplication | A brief description |
| EXIF to DC XML normaliser | File Format Migration Metadata Extraction | Extract EXIF data and normalise it to DC XML. |
| Easy CD-DA Extractor | File Format Migration Metadata Extraction Disk Imaging | Easy CD-DA Extractor is CD Ripper, Music Converter, Audio Converter, Metadata Editor, and CD/DVD burning software. |
| ElcomSoft | Decryption | ElcomSoft offers numerous password recovery applications. |
| Emailchemy | De-Duplication File Format Migration File Management File Recovery | Converts proprietary emails to standard portable formats |
| EmbARC | Metadata Processing Quality Assurance | internal file metadata management including embedding and validation |
| Exact Audio Copy | File Format Migration Metadata Extraction Disk Imaging | Exact Audio Copy is an audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives on Windows only. |
| ExifTool | Metadata Processing Metadata Extraction Repair | Properties extraction, identification, metadata editing |
| Explore2fs | File Management | Explore2fs is a GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 filesystems. |
| FFAStrans | Metadata Extraction File Format Identification File Format Migration Quality Assurance Workflow Planning | Task automation engine, mostly used in audio and video visual content management. |
| FFmpeg | File Format Migration | FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. |
| File Analyzer and Metadata Harvester V2 | File Management Fixity Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing Quality Assurance Validation Workflow | The File Analyzer is a general purpose desktop (and command line) tool designed to automate simple, file-based operations. The File Analyzer assembles a toolkit of tasks a user can perform. The tasks that have been written into the File Analyzer code base have been optimized for use by libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions. |
| FileVerifier++ | Fixity De-Duplication | Windows utility for verifying file contents |
| Filestar | File Format Migration Metadata Extraction File Format Identification | Universal file converter for 900+ file types. |
| Filzip | Rendering | Filzip offers full support (add and extract) support for ZIP (including Quake III's PK3), BH (BlakHole), CAB (Microsoft Cabinet), JAR (JavaARchive), LHA (LZH), TARand GZIP(TAR. |
| Fingerdet | Quality Assurance | QA tool for detecting fingers on digitised pages |
| Fixit tiff | Repair | fixes some issues in (potentially) baseline tiffs, as an example, invalid datetime tags, wrong tiff tag order |
| FolderMatch | De-Duplication | Compares two directory trees and flags up duplicates |
| Foremost | File Recovery Forensic | Foremost is a console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures. |
| Fq | Access Validation Binary & Hexidecimal Editing Discovery Repair Quality Assurance Policy File Format Identification File Recovery Forensic Metadata Extraction | Tool, language and decoders for working with binary data. |
| Free Video Cutter Joiner | Redaction Personal Archiving File Management | It cuts and joins video streams without altering the codecs. |
| FreeCommander | File Management De-Duplication Fixity File Copy | Split-screen file manager with desirable extras |
| Fslint | De-Duplication File Management | Set of utilities to find and clean various forms of lint on a filesystem, such as duplicate files, empty directories, and bad file names. |
| GNU Diffutils | De-Duplication Quality Assurance | GNU Diffutils is a package of several programs related to finding differences between files. |
| GetDataBack | File Recovery | GetDataBack will recover your data if the hard drive's partition table, boot record, FAT/MFT or root directory are lost or damaged, data was lost due to a virus attack, the drive was formatted, fdisk has been run, a power failure has caused a system crash, files were lost due to a software failure, files were accidentally deleted. |
| Goobi | Workflow OCR Planning Quality Assurance | Workflow Management Tool |
| Grok | File Format Migration Rendering | JPEG 2000 SDK, includes encoder/decoder |
| Gzip | Rendering | gzip produces files with a .gz extension. gunzip can decompress files created by gzip, compress or pack |
| HandBrake | File Format Migration | Converts video data into widely accepted formats. |
| IBM Digital Asset Preservation Tool | Emulation | IBM's Digital Asset Preservation Tool is a proof-of-concept demonstration of the Universal Virtual Computer solution that provides long-term access to JPEG and GIF87a files. |
| IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) | Access Rendering | A set of APIs, tools and protocols for manipulating and providing interoperable access to digital images |
| IMacros | Quality Assurance Web Capture | iMacros makes it easy to test web-based applications. |
| ImageMagick | Rendering File Format Migration | ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. |
| ImageVerifier | Metadata Processing Validation Quality Assurance | ImageVerifier (IV for short) traverses a hierarchy of folders looking for image files to verify. It can verify TIFFs, JPEGs. PSDs, DNGs, and non-DNG raws (e.g., NEF, CR2). |
| Ingestr | Backup File Format Migration | ingestr is a command-line application that allows ingesting or copying data from any source into any destination database. |
| IrfanView | Rendering | IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, Windows 7. |