Decode hundreds of file formats and convert or extract content #

Deark is a portable command-line utility that can decode certain types of files, and either convert them to a more-modern or more-readable format, or extract embedded files from them. It also has an option (-d) to display detailed information about a file’s contents and metadata. It’s free and open source.

The demo digs through Inception-like layers in fbm-1.2.tgz to identify and convert a Sun raster image to PNG.

~250 formats, from obscure (BMI, TN3, etc.) to common (MP3, PNG, etc.), are supported:

Alias PIX, a.k.a. Vivid ray tracer bitmap, Alpha Microsystems BMP, Amiga Workbench Icon, AMOS Picture Bank, AMOS Sprite Bank (AmSp) / AMOS Icon Bank (AmIc), ANI (Windows Animated Cursor), ANIM (Amiga IFF-ANIM), Animatic Film, Animator PIC/CEL, ANSI Art, Apple volume label image, ART - PFS: 1st Publisher clip art, ArtWorx Data Format (ADF), AutoCAD Slide Library (.slb), Award BIOS logo (EPA, AWBM), Binary Text (.BIN character graphics format), BLD (MegaPaint BLD), BMI (Zoner bitmap), BMP (Windows bitmap), Bob ray tracer bitmap, BPG, BSAVE/BLOAD image, Calamus Raster Graphic, Cardfile, COKE (Atari Falcon) (*.tg1), Compface intermediate format, Corel CCX, CorelDRAW CDR, old "WL" format, Corel Gallery BMF, CorelMOSAIC CLB, DIB, DCX, DEGAS and DEGAS Elite, DeskMate Paint .PNT, DL animation (DL MAKER), Doodle (Atari), Dr. Halo .CUT, EggPaint (*.trp), EggPaint (*.trp), Enhanced Windows Metafile, EPOC MBM/Sketch/AIF, EPS (Encapsulated PostScript), Falcon True Color, farbfeld, FLI/FLC (Autodesk Animator), GEM VDI Bit Image (GEM Raster), GIF, GodPaint (Atari Falcon), Graphic Workshop thumbnail (.thn), GRASP GL animation, GROB (HP calculator), Hemera Photo-Object image, HP 100LX / HP 200LX .ICN icon format, HR (TRS-80 High Resolution graphics file), HS2, HSI Raw, icns (Apple Icon), ICO/CUR (Windows icon/cursor), ILBM and related IFF-based images, IndyPaint (*.tru), IndyPaint (*.tru), Inset PIX, InShape IIM, Jovian Logic VI bitmap, JPEG and JPEG-LS, JPEG 2000, JPEG 2000 codestream, JPEG XR (HD Photo), LSS16 (SYSLINUX image), Lumena CEL, MacPaint, Magic Desk icon, MAKIchan graphics, MegaPaint Symbol Library (.lib), MegaPaint Patterns (.pat), MRW (Minolta RAW), MSP (Microsoft Paint graphics), MS Word for DOS Screen Capture, NEOchrome (.NEO), NEOchrome Animation, New Print Shop .POG format, NIE/NII/NIA, NGG (Nokia Group Graphic), NLM (Nokia Logo Manager bitmap), NOL (Nokia Operator Logo), NPM (Nokia Picture Message), NSL (Nokia Startup Logo), OLPC .565 firmware icon, OS/2 Icon, Pointer, Bitmap Array formats, PaintShop Pro Browser Cache, Palm BitmapType, Palm Database (PDB) ImageViewer/FireViewer, PCPaint / Pictor, PCX, PGC (Portfolio graphics compressed), PGF (Portfolio graphics), PGX (Portfolio graphics animation), PI4 (Atari Falcon 320x240), PI7 (Atari Falcon 640x480), PI9 (Atari Falcon 320x200), PICT (Macintosh image), PKM (GrafX2 image), PNG / MNG / JNG, PNM/PBM/PGM/PPM/PAM, PrintMaster .SHP format, PrintPartner .GPH, Print Shop .DAT format, Prism Paint, PSD / PSB (Photoshop), Psion PIC, QDV (Giffer), QTIF (QuickTime image), RIPscrip icon (.ICN) or BGI image, RISC OS / Acorn Sprite, RISC OS / Acorn Draw, RSC (GEM resource), SHG and MRB, Spectrum 512 Compressed (.spc), Spectrum 512 Smooshed (.sps), Spectrum 512 uncompressed (.spu), STOS Memory Bank (.mbk), Sun Raster, TGA (Targa), Thumbs.db (Windows thumbnail), TI calculator "variable" files, TIFF and Exif, TIM (Playstation graphics), Tiny Stuff (.TNY, .TN1, .TN2, .TN3), VBM (VDC BitMap), Video Master (.flm/.vid/.vsq), VITec image format, VORT ray tracer .pix image, Windows 1.0 ICO/CUR, Windows Metafile, Winzle, WordPerfect Graphics, X11 puzzle, XBIN, X-Face (icon/avatar format), XGA (Atari Falcon image), YBM (Bennet Yee face format), ZBR ((Zoner) Zebra Metafile), FNT (Windows font), GEM bitmap font, GRASP font, PCF font, PC Screen Font (PSF), PFF2 font, PK font (Packed Font), Unifont HEX, ADF (Amiga disk image), ARC archive, ArcFS, ArcMac, ARJ, AmBs (AMOS "Banks" aggregate format), Apple Partition Map, AppleSingle/AppleDouble, ar (.a archive/library format), ATR (Atari disk image), BinHex (.hqx), CAB (Microsoft Cabinet), ARX, CAR, CD/raw, compress (legacy Unix .Z format), cpio, CRLZH, Crunch, DCL Implode, CRUSH (.cru), D64 (Commodore 64 disk format), DMS (Amiga disk image), Doom WAD, FAT, Gzip, HFS filesystem image, InstallShield Z archive, ISO 9660 CD-ROM image, LBR, LHA/LZH/PMA, LoadDskF/SaveDskF, LZWCOM, MacBinary, Microsoft Compound File Binary, Microsoft Installation Compression, MSA (Magic Shadow Archiver), NRG, Pack, PackDir, Palm PDB/PQA, Palm PRC, Pasti (.stx), RPM (package manager), SIS (EPOC/Symbian archive), Spark archive, Squash, Squeeze, StuffIt (.sit), tar, WOZ, ZIP, zlib, Zoo, Zoo filter format, Zoo Z format, ZSQ, Ascii85, Base16, Base64, Uuencoded, Xxencoded, AMOS source code, ASF multimedia, Byte frequency analysis, C64 BASIC, Copy, CP437, CRC, DS_Store, EBML/Matroska/MKV/WebM, EXE/PE/NE/etc., FLAC audio, Hex dump, HLP (Windows Help), ICC profile, IFF (Interchange File Format), IPTC-IIM metadata, ISO-BMFF, JPEG scan, Macintosh Resource Manager, MIDI, Monkey's Audio (.ape), MP3 / MPEG audio, NULL, Ogg (Vorbis, Theora, etc.), Photoshop Action format (.atn), Photoshop Brush format (.abr), Photoshop Custom Shapes format (.csh), Photoshop Gradient format (.grd), Photoshop Patterns format (.pat), Photoshop Styles format (.asl), Plain text, .plist Property List, Psion APP/IMG and OPA/OPO, RIFF, Split, WRI - Microsoft Write.

UPDATE: More tools in the same vein:

OFRAK: Unpack, modify, and repack binaries
dtrx: "Do The Right Extraction"
unp: A shell frontend for uncompressing/unpacking tools
atool: Script for managing file archives of various types
Binwalk: Analyze, reverse engineer, and extract firmware images.
Universal Extractor 2: Extract files from any type of archive or installer.

/nix | Oct 22, 2021

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