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| Tool | Function | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| 7-Zip | Rendering Transfer Fixity | 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio, and encryption and fixity check capabilities |
| ADIGRES | Storage File Management Access | ADIGRES is a powerful cross-platform Document Management System written in Java. |
| ALTAG3D | File Management Storage Metadata Extraction Personal Archiving | An open source archive software |
| AccessData Decryption Tools | Decryption | This page gives information on AccessData Decryption Tools. |
| AccessToSiard | File Format Migration | A collection of scripts to automatically convert MS Access files to the SIARD format. |
| Advanced Renamer | File Management | Advanced Renamer is a program for renaming multiple files and folders at once. By configuring renaming methods the names can be manipulated in various ways. |
| Aid4Mail | File Format Migration | For migrating or normalizing email formats |
| AllDup | De-Duplication | A brief description |
| Antiword | File Format Migration | Antiword is a free MS Word reader for Linux and RISC OS. |
| Apache PDFBox | Metadata Extraction Repair File Format Migration Validation Encryption Detection | JAVA PDF library for creation, manipulation, validation and content extraction of PDF documents |
| Apache POI - the Java API for Microsoft Documents | File Format Migration Metadata Extraction Encryption Detection | 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). |
| ArchiFiltre | File Management Appraisal | Overview of folder trees with fine diagrams |
| Archivematica | Preservation System File Format Migration | Archivematica is a digital preservation system that automates the process of preparing digital objects for ingest into a repository and an access system |
| AsTiffTagViewer | Quality Assurance | AsTiffTagViewer is a TIFF Tag Viewer application. |
| Audacity | Redaction Personal Archiving File Management | The open source audio editor |
| AudiAnnotate | Access Annotation Preservation System Workflow Academic Social Networking Personal Archiving Service Version Control Metadata Processing Rendering Discovery Persistent Identification Managing Active Research Data | To make audio and its interpretations more discoverable and usable by extending the use of the newest IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) standard for audio with the development of the AudiAnnotate web application, documented workflows and workshops that will facilitate the use of existing best-of-breed, open source tools for audio annotation (Sonic Visualiser), for public code and document repositories (GitHub), and audio presentation (Universal Viewer) to produce, publish, and sustain shareable W3C Web Annotations for individual and collaborative audio projects. |
| Audio/Video to WAV Converter | File Format Migration | This tool converts audio and video files to WAV format. |
| Autopsy Digital Forensics | Appraisal Content Profiling De-Duplication Disk Imaging Forensic | Open source, free digital forensics tool |
| Avcc | File Management | AVCC is an open source application that enables collaborative, efficient item-level cataloging of audiovisual collections. |
| BAT: BnfArcTools | File Management | BAT is a Perl package for processing Internet Archive ARC, DAT and CDX file format. |
| Bad Peggy | Validation Quality Assurance | Scans for damaged images and photos. |
| BitCurator | File Management Fixity Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing Quality Assurance Validation Workflow | The BitCurator Environment is an Ubuntu Linux distribution geared to the needs of archivists and librarians. It includes a suite of open source digital forensics and data analysis tools to help collecting institutions process born-digital materials. |
| Bulk Rename Utility | File Management | Bulk Rename Utility is a free file renaming software for Windows. Bulk Rename Utility allows you to easily rename files and entire folders based upon extremely flexible criteria. |
| CDS Convert | File Format Migration | CDS Convert is a suite of tools that allow conversion of documents, presentations and images between different software formats. |
| CHRONOS | File Format Migration | Database Retirement, Partial and Ongoing Database Archiving, Application Retirement. |
| CSV export form for Microsoft Access | File Format Migration | A Microsoft Access form to export all database tables to interoperable CSV files. |
| CSV2SIARD | File Format Migration | A tool to create SIARD containers from CSV files. |
| Calibre | Rendering File Format Migration | An e-book management tool, including viewer, migration, and file conversion features among others. |
| Catdoc & xls2csv | File Format Migration | catdoc is a program that reads one or more Microsoft Word files and outputs text to standard output. |
| Checkit tiff | Quality Assurance Validation | a tool to validate TIFF files against given configuration profile |
| CloneSpy | De-Duplication | Finds duplicates, also precisely, deletes with rules. |
| CloudCompare | File Format Migration Multi Format Rendering Metadata Extraction | CloudCompare is a tool for editing and processing 3D point clouds and triangular meshes. |
| Converseen | File Format Migration | A GUI for ImageMagick supporting mass operations |
| CyberChef | Encryption Detection File Management Decryption Metadata Extraction Personal Archiving Binary & Hexidecimal Editing Discovery | A forensic tool with workflow capabilities to analyse files and containers |
| Czkawka | De-Duplication File Management Appraisal | Czkawka is a simple, fast and free app to remove unnecessary files from your computer. |
| DANS DBF | File Format Migration Rendering | DANS DBF Library is a Java library for reading and writing xBase database files. |
| DANS MIXED | File Format Migration | Migration to Intermediate XML for Electronic Data. |
| DART (Digital Archivist's Resource Tool) | Storage File Management Fixity Transfer | Provides both a GUI and a command-line interface for packaging files and uploading them to remote repositories. |
| DBPTK Developer | Validation File Format Migration | DBPTK Developer - library and command-line tool for exection of database preservation actions |
| DBeaver | File Format Migration | Multi-platform database tool that supports migration and data management |
| DIMAG | Metadata Extraction Preservation System Access File Format Migration Storage Workflow | A software suite supporting archives with preservation of digital information for eternity |
| DMC (DBpoweramp Music Converter) | File Format Migration | dBpoweramp Music Converter (dMC) is an audio conversion tool. |
| DNS | Metadata Processing File Format Migration Validation Preservation System | DNS - DA NRW Software Suite |
| DOSBox | Emulation | DOSBox is a DOS-emulator for different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X. |
| DV Analyzer | Quality Assurance Metadata Processing | DV Analyzer is a technical quality control and reporting tool that examines DV streams in order to report errors in the tape-to-file transfer process. |
| DVRescue | Quality Assurance Metadata Processing | DVRescue is archivist-made software that supports data migration from DV tapes into digital files suitable for long-term preservation. |
| Db-preservation-toolkit | File Format Migration | Enables conversion between database formats or dumping from live database systems for the purposes of preservation. |
| DbDIPview | Access Quality Assurance Redaction | Framework for packaging the database Representation Information and pre-configured user-friendly access. Different combinations of Content Data Objects are supported by an automated deployment mechanism. Enables access to the archived databases in the archive reading room for non-technical users. |
| Dcfldd | File Management Forensic File Copy | dcfldd is an enhanced version of GNU dd with features useful for forensics and security. |
| Dd rescue | File Recovery Disk Imaging | dd_rescue is suitable for rescuing data from a medium with errors, i. |
| 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. |
| JJ2000 | Rendering File Format Migration | Pure Java implementation of a JPEG2000 decoder |
| JPC | Emulation | JPC is the fast pure Java x86 PC emulator. |
| JWAT | Metadata Extraction Validation File Format Migration | Java Web Archive Toolkit |
| Java library implementing Pairtree | File Management De-Duplication | The PAIRTREE LIBRARY is a software library that supports the mapping between identifiers and filepaths according to the Pairtree Specification. |
| Jp2StructCheck | Validation Quality Assurance Metadata Extraction | Simple JP2 file structure checker |
| Jpylyzer | Validation Quality Assurance Metadata Extraction | JP2 validation + properties extraction |
| KEEP Emulation Framework | Emulation | KEEP Emulation Framework (EF) allows users to view and interact with digital files that otherwise would require obsolete hardware and software. |
| KOST-Simy | Validation Quality Assurance | The KOST-Simy application is used for Compare Images. |
| KOST-Val | Validation Quality Assurance | KOST-Val is an open source validator for different file formats and Submission Information Package (SIP). |
| Kakadu | Rendering File Format Migration | JPEG 2000 SDK, includes encoder/decoder |
| Kernel-based virtual machine | Emulation | KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). |
| LegacyFileConverter | File Format Migration | Converts document formats to RTF |
| Library (xklb) | File Management Quality Assurance Web Capture | Media indexing multi-tool |
| Libreoffice | File Format Migration | An office suite with command line options for PDF/A conversions |
| Lingfo | File Format Migration Metadata Extraction | Lingfo provides a library for developers to use to extract information from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files. |
| Linux-VServer | Emulation | Linux-VServer provides virtualization for GNU/Linux systems. |
| LuraDocument PDF Compressor | File Format Migration | LuraDocument PDF Compressor is a document conversion engine. |
| MDB/ACCDB Viewer | File Format Migration | MDB Viewer opens Microsoft Access 1997-2013 databases on your Macintosh, and views and exports all tables in Access databases. |
| METS Navigator | Rendering Metadata Processing | METS-based system for displaying and navigating sets of page images or other multi-part digital objects. |
| MIXED (Migration to Intermediate XML for Electronic Data) | File Format Migration | 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. |
| MP3val | Validation Quality Assurance | MP3val is a small, high-speed, free software tool for checking MPEG audio files' integrity. |
| MPG321 | File Format Migration | 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 | Access File Format Migration | MPP Viewer is a viewer for Microsoft Project files |
| MPlayerRR | Rendering | A movie player that runs on many systems, supports a wide range of formats and supports a wide range of output drivers |
| MRU-Blaster | Redaction Forensic | MRU-Blaster is a program made to do one large task - detect and clean MRU (most recently used) lists on your computer. |
| MSIL Disassembler (Ildasm.exe) | File Format Migration | The MSIL Disassembler is a companion tool to the MSIL Assembler (Ilasm. |
| MailStore Home | Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing File Management Discovery | Unifies your private emails into one searchable, platform-independent repository |
| Matchbox Tool | Quality Assurance De-Duplication | Matchbox: Duplicate detection tool for digital document collections. |
| Mdqc | Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing Quality Assurance | Tool for managing and comparing digital asset metadata |
| MeshLab | Rendering | A tool for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering, texturing, converting, and editing 3D triangular meshes. |
| Micr'Olonys | Storage Access Passive Data Storage Backup Transfer File Recovery | Micr’Olonys is the software solution for long-term passive digital archiving on film and paper. |
| Microsoft Office 2003 Add-in: Word Redaction v1.2 | Redaction Forensic | 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 | Redaction Forensic | 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. |
| Mplayer | Rendering | A movie player that runs on many systems, supports a wide range of formats and supports a wide range of output drivers |
| Mutlivalent | Rendering | Multivalent works on digital documents research and development. |
| 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. |
| NT (New Tool) | De-Duplication Rendering | This is a presrvation tool |
| Namalysator | Metadata Processing Quality Assurance Validation | Tool for METS/ALTO validation and quality control |
| Nitro Pro | File Format Migration | A PDF handling tool including PDF/A |
| NumaHOP | Quality Assurance OCR | Platform for digitization projects management |
| Ontrack EasyRecovery | File Recovery | Ontrack EasyRecovery software products offer home users or businesses complete solutions for their data recovery, file repair and disk diagnostic needs. |
| Open Office | Rendering File Format Migration | OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. |
| Open Video Converter | File Format Migration | This tool is for video conversion, splitting and editing. |
| OpenJPEG | File Format Migration Metadata Extraction | The OpenJPEG library is an open-source JPEG 2000 codec written in C language. |
| OpenVZ wiki | Emulation | OpenVZ is container-based virtualization for Linux. |
| OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-in for Office | File Format Migration | The goal for this project is to provide translators to allow for interoperability between applications based on ODF (OpenDocument) 1. |
| Oracle Outside In Technology | File Format Migration | 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 | Validation File Format Migration | PDF/A Manager is a PDF/A (ISO 19005) validation and conversion software. |
| PDFsam | Rendering Redaction | PDFsam splits and merges PDF files |
| Package Handler | File Management Metadata Processing Personal Archiving Validation 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 |
| Pandoc | File Format Migration | A universal converter that converts files from one markup format into another |
| Password Recovery Software | Decryption | Passware software recovers or resets passwords for Windows, Word , Excel, QuickBooks, Access, Acrobat, and more than 180 document types. |
| PdfaPilot | Validation Metadata Extraction File Format Migration | pdfaPilot: Conversion of documents and emails into robust, searchable PDF or PDF/A files |
| Pdftk | Metadata Extraction Repair | PDF manipulation tool |
| PhotoRec | File Recovery | PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. |
| PhotoRescue | Disk Imaging File Recovery | PhotoRescue is a picture and data recovery solution for digital film - sd cards, compact flash, memory sticks, microdrive, etc. |
| PiM (PREMIS in METS) Toolbox | File Format Migration Metadata Processing Validation | PREMIS in METS Toolbox was developed to support the implementation of PREMIS in the METS container format. |
| Potree | Rendering Access Discovery | A free open-source WebGL based point cloud renderer for large point clouds. |
| QCTools | Quality Assurance | Digitized analog video analysis |
| QGIS | File Format Migration Rendering Multi Format Rendering Access | QGIS is a Free and Open Source GIS application that supports a wide range of raster and vector spatial data types. |
| Qpdf | Metadata Extraction Decryption | QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files |
| Quick View Plus | Rendering Multi Format Rendering | View virtually all the files and e-mail attachments you need, instantly without purchasing numerous software programs. |
| RE (Rename Expert) | Metadata Processing File Management | Controlled renaming of file collections |
| RODA DBML | File Format Migration | Migrates databases to an XML schema, DBML. Can then provide access by dumping DBML to MySQL and showing it in phpMyAdmin. |
| RapidRedact | Redaction Forensic | 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. |
| ReACT (Resource Audit and Comparison Tool) | File Management Quality Assurance | A file audit and comparison tool using Microsoft Excel and VBA. |
| ReNamer | File Management | ReNamer is a very powerful and flexible file renaming tool. |
| ReactOS | Emulation | ReactOS is a free and open-source operating system for personal computers intended to be binary-compatible with computer programs and device drivers made for Windows Server 2003 and later versions of Windows. |
| Recompute | Emulation | Automatically generates "playable" virtual machines from source code on github |
| Recovery is Possible | File Recovery | Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a CD or USB boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. |
| Redact-It | Redaction Forensic | Provides Windows desktop and server redaction of PDF, Word, scanned TIFF images. Find, black out and remove content within documents, images or drawings. |
| Redax | Redaction Forensic | Redax completely redacts (removes) text and graphics from the PDF page. |
| Remove Empty Directories | File Management | Removes empty directories |
| Restorer Ultimate | File Recovery | Restorer Ultimate offers data recovery software. |
| Rosetta | Preservation System Access Metadata Processing File Format Migration | Ex Libris Rosetta enables institutions to preserve and provide access to the collections in their care. |
| SIARD Suite | File Format Migration | SIARD Suite is a freeware tool for the conversion of contents of relations databases into the SIARD format. |
| SIARD-VAL | Validation Quality Assurance | SIARD-Val is an open source validator for SIARD files. |
| SIARDexcerpt | Quality Assurance Access | SIARDexcerpt is a Java-based application that searches and extracts individual records of SIARD files. |
| SPARQLing Unicorn QGIS Plugin | Data capture and Deposit Discovery Web Capture File Format Migration | 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. |
| SSDeep | Fixity De-Duplication | Recursive piecewise hashing tool |
| Safecopy | File Recovery | low level data recovery tool |
| SalvageData Recovery | File Recovery | SalvageData Recovery software tools and products are designed to empower both IT professionals and average personal computer users with all the functionalities and features needed to successfully salvage and recover data files from any kind of logical data loss situation. |
| SheepShaver | Emulation | SheepShaver is a MacOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux that allows you to run classic MacOS applications inside the BeOS/Linux multitasking environment. |
| Smithsonian Cook | File Format Migration Metadata Extraction Metadata Processing Workflow Rendering | 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. |
| SpinRite | File Recovery | SpinRite is a magnetic storage data recovery, repair, and maintenance utility. |
| Ssconvert | File Format Migration | ssconvert is a command line utility to convert spreadsheet files between various spreadsheet file formats. |
| Sumatra PDF | Rendering | Open source, fast, PDF and eBook viewer |
| Sumfolder1 | Appraisal De-Duplication Fixity | sumfolder1 is a utility for use within the archival and digital preservation community to generate checksums for file system directories, and to generate an overall "collection" checksum for a given set of files. The utility may be used in support of de-duplication at a directory/folder level. |
| Switch Audio File Converter | File Format Migration | Switch is a universal audio converter that supports a wide range of formats. |
| TIFF-Val | Validation Quality Assurance | TIFF-Val is an open source validator for TIFF files. |
| TOMES (Transforming Online Mail with Embedded Semantics) | File Format Migration Content Profiling Metadata Processing Data capture and Deposit | A package of open source tools for handling the preservation of government email records |
| Tar | Rendering | The Tar program provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation. |
| TeraCopy | Transfer File Copy File Management | Performs file copying, whilst also logging and verifying accuracy and completeness by using checksums |
| TestDisk | File Recovery | TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software that was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). |
| The DeDuplicator (Heritrix add-on module) | De-Duplication Web Capture | The DeDuplicator is an add-on module for Heritrix to reduce the amount of duplicate data collected in a series of snapshot crawls. |
| The Rename | File Management | Bulk renaming of files |
| Tree | Metadata Processing File Management Appraisal | Tree displays the directory structure of a path or of the disk in a drive graphically. |
| TreeSize | File Management Appraisal | Manage disk space and scan your hard disks. |
| UnArchiver | Decryption Fixity Transfer | UnArchiver is a native macOS utility which supports infinitely more archive formats then other common archiving utilities. |
| UniConvertor | File Format Migration | a Universal vector graphics format translator |
| Unrm | File Recovery | unrm is a small shell utility that can, under some circumstances, recover almost 99% of your erased data (similar to DOS's undelete). |
| Unstoppable Copier | File Recovery | Attempts to recover every readable piece of a file and puts the pieces together. |
| VLC Media Player | Rendering | Cross platform audio and video player based primarily on the libavcodec. |
| VMware Player | Emulation | VMware Player is the easiest way to run multiple operating systems at the same time on your PC. |
| VRenamer | File Management Metadata Processing | vRenamer is a cross platform tool for batch renaming files |
| VeraCrypt | Transfer Decryption | Securely encrypts large amounts of files |
| VirtualBox | Emulation | VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. |
| WMDecode | File Format Migration | WMDecode is used for extracting files from winmail. |
| Warc-proxy | Rendering File Management | Warc-proxy is a simple tool to view WARC content in Firefox |
| WarcManager | File Management Web Capture | The WARC Manager is a web-based UI for managing and querying collections of web crawl data. |
| Warcit | File Format Migration Rendering | 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 | Metadata Extraction Validation File Format Migration | Command line tools and libraries for handling and manipulating WARC files (and HTTP contents) |
| Web Recorder Player | Rendering Access | A tool that replays WARC files on your local computer. |
| WinMerge | De-Duplication File Management | A visual tool for differencing and merging of file collections, images and texts. |
| WinZip | Rendering | WinZip is the world's most popular Windows Zip utility for file compression, file sharing, file encryption, and data backup. |
| Windows Virtual PC | Emulation | Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC, available on Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate, allow you to run multiple Windows environments, such as Windows XP Mode, from your Windows 7 desktop. |
| Wine | Emulation | Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems. |
| XMediaRecode | File Format Migration | A GUI platform for video conversion and cutting. |
| XcorrSound | De-Duplication Quality Assurance | The xcorrSound package compares sound waves using cross correlation. |
| Xen | Emulation | The Xen hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, ARM, and other CPU architectures. |
| Xena | File Format Migration | Detecting the file formats of digital objects; converting digital objects into open formats for preservation. |
| XnConvert | File Format Migration | Cross-platform batch image converter |
| Xpdf | Metadata Extraction Rendering | Open source PDF viewer that includes PDF information extractor and font analyzer |
| ZAR (Zero Assumption Recovery) | File Recovery | ZAR is Windows data recovery software. |