Hachoir version 0.1 was the first prototype and has been replaced by wiki:hachoir-core and wiki:hachoir-parser. It has a nice GTK user interface and can parse approxamitivly 30 file formats.

Features

• GTK user interface ;
• Support stream decompression ;
• Read and process on demand ;
• Filters are recursive ;
• Automatic choice of the filter using MIME type detection ;
• It's easy to write new filter (it's one of the project goals) ;
• It's possible to dump field content into a file ;
• Scriptable with Python (command line option --script).

See the parser list (supported file format).

Download using SubVersion

svn co http://hachoir.org/svn/tags/old-hachoir/0.1

You can also browse the source code

Depends on

• Python 2.4
• pyGTK 2.0 and pyglade
• magic module for Python (optionnal, internal fallback does exist):
  • If you don't have it, download magic.so.bz2 (decompress it in the same directory than Hachoir)
  • Comes from file project (see python sub-directory in source code)
  • Debian package: python-magic

Instructions for Linux distributions

• Gentoo: emerge pytgtk pyxml
  • Moreover, for libmagic : use « USE="python" », and install sys-apps/file
• Ubuntu: apt-get install python-gtk2 python-glade2 python-xml
• Debian: apt-get install python-gtk2 python-magic python-xml

Under Windows

• Python (install Python 2.4 using Windows installer), see also Active Python ("all-in-one" Python installer)
• GTK+ (download GTK+ 2 Runtime Environment)
• pygtk (download pygtk and pycairo) => See Download page (direct link)
• libglade (download last binary package)

Stream types

• File (FileStream)
• Binary string (StringStream)
• Part of another stream (LimitedStream)
• Decompression deflate (DeflateStream), use module zlib of Python
• Decompression gzip (GunzipStream), use module gzip of Python
• Decompression bzip2, use module bz2 of Python
• Decoder base64, use module base64 of Python