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It runs format identification using both [[Apache Tika]] and [[DROID]], and also extracts filename extensions and the first few bytes of each resource, to enable analysis of formats unknown to those tools.
 
It runs format identification using both [[Apache Tika]] and [[DROID]], and also extracts filename extensions and the first few bytes of each resource, to enable analysis of formats unknown to those tools.
  
If can also be configured to use [[Apache PDFBox]]'s Preflight tool to scan PDF's for PDF/A violations, and record them in the index for analysis.
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If can also be configured to use [[Apache PDFBox Preflight]] to scan PDF's for PDF/A violations, and record them in the index for analysis.
  
 
It also records any parsing errors or other access problems it discovers, which can help find problematic resources.
 
It also records any parsing errors or other access problems it discovers, which can help find problematic resources.
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== User Experiences ==
 
== User Experiences ==
 
<!-- Add hotlinks to user experiences with the tool (eg. blog posts). These should illustrate the effectiveness (or otherwise) of the tool. -->
 
<!-- Add hotlinks to user experiences with the tool (eg. blog posts). These should illustrate the effectiveness (or otherwise) of the tool. -->
* Used by the [http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ UK Web Archive] to provide access to their collections. Some details [http://blogs.bl.uk/webarchive/2017/06/revitalising-the-uk-web-archive.html in this blog post]. Feel free to contact [https://twitter.com/UKWebArchive @UKWebArchive] for more information.
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* Used by the [http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ UK Web Archive] to provide access to their collections. More details TBA.
* Also used by a number of other web archives, and by the [https://github.com/archivesunleashed/warclight WARCLight] project.
 
  
 
= Development Activity =
 
= Development Activity =

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