Hachoir is a Python library to view and edit a binary stream field by field. In other words, Hachoir allows you to "browse" any binary stream just like you browse directories and files. A file is splitted in a tree of fields, where the smallest field is just one bit. Examples of fields types: integers, strings, bits, padding types, floats, etc. Hachoir is the French word for a meat grinder (meat mincer), which is used by butchers to divide meat into long tubes; Hachoir is used by computer butchers to divide binary files into fields.
- Hachoir website (this site)
- Hachoir at GitHub (source code, bugs)
Command line tools using Hachoir parsers:
hachoir-metadata <metadata>: get metadata from binary fileshachoir-urwid <urwid>: display the content of a binary file in text modehachoir-wx <wx>: display the content of a binary file in GUI modehachoir-grep <grep>: find a text pattern in a binary filehachoir-strip <strip>: modify a file to remove metadata
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