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jaclaz on Nov 28, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Let's Solve the File Format Problem (2019)

And - in case of need - on Windows there is Trid:

https://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html

which has also a couple online options and a database of signatures/magic numbers:

https://mark0.net/soft-trid-deflist.html

chaz6 on Nov 30, 2020 [–]

There is a Linux version too! But sadly, there is not a library which would be incredibly useful for analysing, for example, blobs in a database, or categorising random files uploaded by a user of a website.

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