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[GNUnet-SVN] r24004 - Extractor-docs/WWW
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[GNUnet-SVN] r24004 - Extractor-docs/WWW |
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Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:21:14 +0200 |
Author: grothoff
Date: 2012-09-25 20:21:14 +0200 (Tue, 25 Sep 2012)
New Revision: 24004
Modified:
Extractor-docs/WWW/index.html
Log:
better
Modified: Extractor-docs/WWW/index.html
===================================================================
--- Extractor-docs/WWW/index.html 2012-09-25 18:10:00 UTC (rev 24003)
+++ Extractor-docs/WWW/index.html 2012-09-25 18:21:14 UTC (rev 24004)
@@ -49,19 +49,12 @@
<h2>GNU Libextractor</h2>
<img src="extractor_logo.png" alt="libextractor" vspace="0" width="136"
border="0" height="94" hspace="0" align="right">
-<p>GNU Libextractor is 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.
-libextractor is a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/">GNU</a> package.
-Our official GNU website can be found
-at <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libextractor/">http://www.gnu.org/software/libextractor/</a>.
-</p>
<p>
+GNU Libextractor is a library used to extract meta data from files.
The goal is to provide developers of file-sharing networks, browsers
or WWW-indexing bots with a universal library to obtain simple
keywords and meta data to match against queries and to show to users
-instead of only relying on filenames. libextractor contains a shell
+instead of only relying on filenames. libextractor contains the shell
command <tt>extract</tt> that, similar to the well-known <tt>file</tt>
command, can extract meta data from a file an print the results to
stdout.
@@ -79,6 +72,19 @@
FLV, REAL, RIFF (AVI), MPEG, QT and ASF.
Also, various additional MIME types are detected.
</p>
+<p>
+GNU libextractor uses helper-libraries (plugins) to perform the actual
+extraction. As a result, GNU libextractor can be extended simply by
+installing additional plugins. Writing robust parsers can be difficult.
+GNU libextractor protects the main applications from haning or crashing
+plugins by executing all plugins out-of-process.
+</p>
+<p>
+GNU libextractor is a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/">GNU</a> package.
+Our official GNU website can be found
+at <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libextractor/">http://www.gnu.org/software/libextractor/</a>.
+</p>
+<p>
<h3 id="download">Downloading
Libextractor</h3>
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