[TIKA-917] Parser for executables (metadata)

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.1
• Component/s: parser
• Labels: new-parser
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Nick Burch
• Created: 13/May/12 13:45
• Updated: 02/Mar/15 15:54

Description

Based on the investigations for TIKA-913, it should be fairly easy to implement a parser to extract metadata from executables (PE and ELF). This could give us a similar level of information to that returned by file, eg architecture, platform, endian-ness etc