kaitai_struct_formats vs catgolf

kaitai_struct_formats

Kaitai Struct: library of binary file formats (.ksy) (by kaitai-io)

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catgolf

cat(1) golf (by wader)

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kaitai_struct_formats		catgolf
	Project
3	Mentions	2
682	Stars	40
0.7%	Growth	-
6.3	Activity	6.2
12 days ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
Kaitai Struct	Language
-	License	-

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kaitai_struct_formats

Posts with mentions or reviews of kaitai_struct_formats. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-15.

Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2024
Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jun 2023

Kaitai has a repository of binary formats[1] that can be used in visualizers or to auto-generate parsers.
[1] https://formats.kaitai.io/
Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2022

This is tangential to your submission, but PDF is the file format I use for exercising any library that claims to be a declarative file format (ala https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats#readme )

catgolf

Posts with mentions or reviews of catgolf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-03.

Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jun 2023
Cat(1) Golf
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Oct 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kaitai_struct_formats and catgolf you can also consider the following projects:

PyMuPDF - PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.

cutter - Free and Open Source Reverse Engineering Platform powered by rizin

pdfquery - A fast and friendly PDF scraping library.

jqjq - jq implementation of jq

feng - Binary file format template system

flac.tcl - Probably the slowest FLAC decoder in the world

i7j-rups - RUPS is an acronym for Reading and Updating PDF Syntax. RUPS is a tool built on top of iText® that allows you to look inside a PDF document and browse the different PDF objects and content streams.

010-Editor-Templates

pdfplumber - Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.

Kaitai Struct - Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby