Welcome

Open Discover SDK is a .NET application programming interface (API) that supports:

• Identifying file formats using internal binary signatures for reliable and very fast file format identification (over 1,600+ file formats supported for identification)
• Extracting text from supported file formats and optionally identifying the languages present in the extracted text
• Extracting metadata from supported file formats (over 4,500+ known metadata fields extracted in total)
• Extracting attachments/embedded items from supported document formats
• Extracting archive container items (7-zip, .zip, .rar, .tar, and many more)
• Testing archives and archive items for true expansion size before extraction. This feature can help in malicious archive detection (e.g., 'compression bombs' and archives with intentionally modified item headers).
• Extracting mail store container email objects (PST, OST, OST2013, MBOX, etc)
• Detecting and extracting sensitive item information from text and metadata such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, driver's license numbers, addresses, phone numbers, and much more.
• Detecting and extracting supported entity item type information present in text and metadata.

Open Discover SDK API is purposed for users to develop higher level document processing applications for:

• Full text search using SDK for text/metadata/attachment/entity extraction
• Machine learning/AI requiring format identification and quality extracted text and metadata
• Text analytics
• Information governance
• Website crawling/full-text website search
• Enterprise search and content management
• IT Departments - identify, classify, and deduplicate documents in file storage devices on-premise or in the cloud
• eDiscovery
• And more...

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