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External software tools used in Archivematica

Current release

Archivematica integrates a suite of free and open-source tools that allows users to process digital objects from ingest to access based on the ISO-OAIS functional model. In addition to the core software which is released under AGPL v3 license, the following tools are bundled with Archivematica:

Tool	Description	License
AtoM	Web-based archival description and access tool.	GNU General Public License (GPL)
BagIt	Standard and script to package digital objects and metadata for archival storage	BSD License
bulk_extractor	Disk image and file contents analysis tool	Public domain
Clam AV (anti-virus)	Anti-virus toolkit for UNIX	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Django	Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.	BSD License
ElasticSearch	Indexing and search	Apache License 2.0
ExifTool	Multimedia metadata extraction	GNU General Public License and Artistic License
FFmpeg	Converts a wide variety of audio and video formats	GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
fido	File format identification tool	Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License")
File Information Tool Set (FITS)	File format identification and validation software integration tool	GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Gearman	Gearman provides a generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes that are better suited to do the work.	BSD License
Imagemagick	Converts a wide variety of bitmap images	GPL compatible Imagemagick license
Inkscape	Converts vector images to Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) format	GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2
JHOVE	File format validation tool	GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
md5deep	Checksum generation and verification scripts	GNU General Public License (GPL)
MediaConch	File policy conformance checker tool	BSD (2-clause)
MediaInfo	Multimedia metadata extraction	BSD (2-clause), Zlib
NFS-common	Network File System Access - allows access to files on network storage devices.	GNU General Public License (GPL)
p7zip	7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. (LZMA)	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Python-lxml	Python binding for libxml2 and libxslt	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Seigfried	File format identification tool	Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License")
Sleuthkit	Disk image management and extraction toolkit	Common Public License / IBM Public License
Tesseract	Optical Character Recognition -read image files and convert to text	Apache Licence Vesion 2
Ubuntu Linux	Interface with computing hardware. Ubuntu Linux server edition.	GNU General Public License (GPL)
UUID	command line interface (CLI) for the generation of DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996 and IETF RFC-4122 compliant Universally Unique Identifier (UUID).	GNU General Public License (GPL)
unar	The Unarchiver is an archive unpacker program	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Zip	Utility called by Bagit to create AIP package	Info-Zip license: "Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely"