File identification tools, part 7: Apache Tika

File identification tools, part 7: Apache Tika. Gary McGath. Mad File Format Science Blog.  July 1, 2015.

     Apache Tika is a Java-based open source toolkit that can identify a wide range of formats and extract metadata from others. It doesn’t distinguish variants as much as DROID. Plugins can be added for formats that it does not regularly support.

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• File Identification Tools
• Siegfried v 1.0 released (a file format identification tool)
• Infokit: Digital file formats
• More on using DROID for Appraisal 
• File Information Tool Set (FITS).

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