libextractor

libextractor is a library used to extract meta-data from files of arbitrary type. It is designed to use helper-libraries to perform the actual extraction, and to be trivially extendable by linking against external extractors for additional file types. The goal is to provide developers of file-sharing networks, file managers, and WWW-indexing bots with a universal library to obtain meta-data about files. It includes a shell-command and bindings for Java (JNI) and Python.

[Intended Audience] Developers, End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License] OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System] MacOS X, POSIX, POSIX :: BSD, POSIX :: BSD :: BSD/OS, POSIX :: BSD :: FreeBSD, POSIX :: BSD :: NetBSD, POSIX :: BSD :: OpenBSD, POSIX :: GNU/Hurd, POSIX :: Linux, POSIX :: SunOS/Solaris, Unix
[Programming Language] C, C++, Java
[Topic] Communications :: File Sharing, Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search, Multimedia, Software Development :: Libraries, Text Processing :: Indexing