Digital Preservation Workbench 1.2.0 GitHub️

File System Scanner

Scan your own files without installs or uploads

This is a basic tool that runs in your web browser, scanning your local files without sending any data anywhere else.

It just counts the number of different file extensions[1], building up a simple collection profiles that you can use to e.g. compare your files against other collections and information sources.

By default, to avoid exposing personal data, file extensions that occur less than ten times are truncated down to the first six characters after the dot. Similarly, 'hidden' files and folders (meaning those that start with a dot character) are excluded from the scanning process. These options can be changed using the configuration options panel below.

Configuration & Anonymization Options
Progress Log


  1. If you want to run format identification in your browser, you could try Siegfried.JS for individual files, or Demystify Lite to scan and report on sets of files. ↩︎