Dear all,
I'm happy to announce the release of GNU libextractor 1.14.
About GNU libextractor
======================
GNU Libextractor is a simple library used to extract meta data from
files. The goal is to provide developers of file-sharing networks,
browsers or WWW-indexing bots with a universal library to obtain simple
keywords and meta data to match against queries and to show to users
instead of only relying on filenames. GNU libextractor contains the
shell command "extract" that, similar to the well-known file command,
can extract meta data from a file an print the results to stdout.
Currently, GNU libextractor supports the following file formats: HTML,
MAN, PS, DVI, OLE2 (DOC, XLS, PPT), OpenOffice (sxw), StarOffice (sdw),
FLAC, MP3 (ID3v1 and ID3v2), OGG, WAV, S3M (Scream Tracker 3), XM
(eXtended Module), IT (Impulse Tracker), NSF(E) (NES music), SID (C64
music), EXIV2, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, DEB, RPM, TAR(.GZ), LZH, LHA, RAR,
ZIP, CAB, 7-ZIP, AR, MTREE, PAX, CPIO, ISO9660, SHAR, RAW, XAR FLV, PDF,
REAL, RIFF (AVI), MPEG, QT, Applefile and ASF. Also, various additional
MIME types are detected and many more video formats are supported via
libvlc.
GNU libextractor uses helper-libraries (plugins) to perform the actual
extraction. As a result, GNU libextractor can be extended simply by
installing additional plugins. Writing robust parsers can be difficult.
GNU libextractor protects the main applications from haning or crashing
plugins by executing all plugins out-of-process.
GNU libextractor is written in C. However, a binding for Java exists.
Noteworthy improvements in 1.14
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* Revive REAL plugin (fixes #2518).
* Revive VLC plugin (fixes #2075).
* Fix issues in ELF plugin (fixes #8514).
* Fix issues in HTML plugin (fixes #8620).
* Fix issues in EXIV2 plugin (fixes #8513, #9223).
* Revive Applefile plugin (fixes #2517).
* Revive MPEG plugin (fixes #2078/#2231).
* Revive PDF plugin (fixes #2072).
Upgrading is highly recommended.
Availability
============
The GNU libextractor source code is available from all GNU FTP mirrors.
The Java binding is a separate download.
GNU libextractor on a FTP mirror near you
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libextractor/libextractor-1.4.tar.gz
GNU libextractor Java binding on a FTP mirror near you
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libextractor/libextractor-java-1.0.0.tar.gz
GNU libextractor on the primary GNU FTP server
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libextractor/libextractor-1.4.tar.gz
GNU libextractor Java binding on the primary GNU FTP server
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libextractor/libextractor-java-1.0.0.tar.gz
Further Information
GNU libextractor Homepage
http://www.gnu.org/s/libextractor/
GNU libextractor Manual
http://www.gnu.org/s/libextractor/manual/
GNU libextractor Bug tracker
https://bugs.gnunet.org/
Thank you for your attention.
Happy hacking!
Christian Grothoff
