libextractor is a library used to extract meta-data from files of arbitrary type. It is designed to use helper-libraries to perform the actual extraction, and to be trivially extendable by linking against external extractors for additional file types. The goal is to provide developers of file-sharing networks, file managers, and WWW-indexing bots with a universal library to obtain meta-data about files. It includes a shell-command and bindings for Java (JNI) and Python. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release fixes locale paths (for translations). It also ensures that plugin loading and unloading are thread-safe. Some linkage errors on OpenBSD were resolved. An experimental thumbnail extractor based on ffmpeg was added (but is not enabled by default due to security concerns).

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