Notepad Cache Parsing & Reading

The goal of this project is to read and parse the new Windows 11, Notepad.exe Cache.

Python Library

/notepad_parser_py contains a python translation of the rust library AbdulRhmanAlfaifi/notepad_parser

Scripts

The bulkMkText... files are scripts for reading the files or using notepad_parser_py.

Al of the scripts have the same usage:
python3 <script>.py <input_folder> <output_folder> <extensions> [<encoding>]

• <input_folder> is the folder with al the files you want to convert. (must exists)
• <output_folder> is where you want the script to place the converted files. (may not exists, will attempt create if not)
• <extensions> is a comma sepparated list of file extensions with dots ex: .bin or .bin,.bin.bak (".bin", ".bin.bak")
• <encoding> is the encoding to save the converted file as (defaulted to utf-8)
  
  

Script	Description
bulkMkText.py	Reads al the files, attempts to convert them to encoding and writes.
bulkMkText_Clean.py	Reads al the files, attempts to convert them to encoding, cleans invalid chars and writes.
bulkMkText_Parsed.py	Reads al the files, parses them using notepad_parser_py and writes assembled text content.
bulkMkText_Parsed_JSON.py	Reads al the files, parses them using notepad_parser_py and writes the JSON of the parsed data.