HexBrowser Alternatives
HexBrowser is described as 'tool that identifies file types. It does not care about the file extension, but opens each file to look for signatures so it can determine the exact type of a file. It now recognizes more than 800 different file formats' and is an app. There are six alternatives to HexBrowser for Windows, Linux, Online / Web-based, Mac and BSD. The best alternative is TrID. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try TrIDNet or file. Other great apps like HexBrowser are Toolsley File Identifier, FileCHK and JHOVE.
Allows to detect file type by recognition of binary signatures. Database with signatures can be downloaded from author site or trained by user with program named TrIDScan(see at author site).
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file is a standard Unix program for recognizing the type of data contained in a computer file using magic numbers.
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Identify files based on the libmagic database in your browser. HTML5/JS port of the "file" tool. No downloads, no installation and no uploads!.
Identify and recover (as much as possible) data lost in CHK files.
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JHOVE is a file format identification, validation and characterisation tool. It is implemented as a Java application and is usable on any Unix, Windows, or OS X platform with appropriate Java installation.
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