Rob van der Woude's Scripting Pages

File Viewers and Converters

File viewers and converters aren't really scripting tools, but even as a scripter you'll often need them anyway.

The "Features" column tells you more about the program's functionality:

By looking in the column designated "Scriptable" you can see if the viewer can be used in scripts:

 

File viewers organized by file types

 

Archives
(arc, cab, mht, rar, zip, etc.)
Product Programmer / Manufacturer Features Scriptable Download Purchase
7-Zip Igor Pavlov X CLI 💾 Free
(donations welcome)
ExtractMHT Jared Breland X CLI 💾 Free
IZArc Ivan Zahariev X CLI 💾 Free
(donations welcome)
Universal Extractor Jared Breland X CLI 💾 Free
WinRAR WinRAR X CLI 💾 🛒
 
Bitmap Images
(bmp, gif, jpg, raw, tiff, etc.)
Product Programmer / Manufacturer Features Scriptable Download Purchase
CopyExif Ken Reneris (1) CLI 💾 Free
dpMagic Plus dpMagic Software V 💾 🛒
ExifTool Phil Harvey (1) 💾 Free
(donations welcome)
FastPictureViewer WIC RAW Codec Pack Axel Rietschin (2) OLE 💾 🛒
FastStone Image Viewer FastStone V+P+C 💾 🛒
FastStone MaxView FastStone V+P+C 💾 🛒
FastStone Photo Resizer FastStone V+C 💾 🛒
FxIF (Firefox EXIF viewer) Christian Eyrich (1) 💾 Free
IrfanView Irfan Skiljan V+P+C CLI 💾 Free
(donations welcome)
MDI to TIFF File Converter Microsoft C 💾 Free
RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer Microsoft V+P 💾 Free
(validation required)
SImage Ken Reneris CLI+OLE 💾 Free
STDU Explorer STDUtility.com (5) 💾 Free
 
Databases
Product Programmer / Manufacturer Features Scriptable Download Purchase
Access Database Viewer Free Labs Software V 💾 Free
RazorSQL Richardson Software V+C 💾 🛒
Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access Microsoft V 💾 Free
xBaseView Mutex LLC V 💾 🛒
 
Multimedia
(music & video)
Product Programmer / Manufacturer Features Scriptable Download Purchase
Adobe Flash Player Macromedia (Adobe) V 💾 Free
Flash Movie Player Eolsoft V 💾 Free
Free CD to MP3 Converter Eusing Software C 💾 Free
Free M4a to MP3 Converter Maniac Tools V+C 💾 Free
HandBrake The HandBrake Team C CLI 💾 Free
MediaInfo Lite (media file analyzer) KL Software V 💾 Free
QuickTime Apple V OLE 💾 Free
RealTimes RealTimes V 💾 Free
SWF & FLV Player Eltima V 💾 Free
SWF & FLV Player Pro Eltima V 💾 🛒
SWF & FLV Toolbox Eltima C 💾 🛒
SWF Live Preview Eltima V 💾 Free
SWF Video Converter Eltima C 💾 🛒
Swiff Player GlobFX V 💾 Free
VLC Media Player The VideoLAN Team C+V 💾 Free
Winamp Media Player Winamp V 💾 Free
Windows Media Player Microsoft V OLE 💾 Free
 
Corel/Microsoft/OpenOffice
(dbf, doc, mdb, odt, ppt, rtf, sxw, wpd, xls, etc.)
Product Programmer / Manufacturer Features Scriptable Download Purchase
Access Database Viewer Free Labs Software V 💾 Free
Bullzip Print to Word BioPDF (9) 💾 Free
Excel Viewer Microsoft V+P 💾 Free
Advanced PDF to Word Converter OfficeConvert.com C 💾 🛒
OXPS to XPS converter tool for Windows 7 SP1/Server 2008 R2 SP1 Microsoft C 💾 Free
(validation required)
Pandoc John MacFarlane C CLI 💾 Free
Powerpoint Viewer Microsoft V+P 💾 Free
Save as PDF or XPS for MS-Office 2007 Microsoft C 💾 Free
Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access Microsoft V 💾 Free
TextMaker Viewer SoftMaker V+P 💾 Free
Visio Viewer Microsoft V+P 💾 Free
Word Viewer Microsoft V+P 💾 Free
xBaseView Mutex LLC V 💾 🛒
 
Portable Documents
(pdf, xps, oxps)
Product Programmer / Manufacturer Features Scriptable Download Purchase
Acrobat Wrapper bioPDF (8) CLI 💾 Free
Adobe Reader Adobe V+P CLI 💾 Free
Bullzip PDF printer BioPDF C OLE 💾 Free
doPDF (PDF printer) Softland C 💾 Free
Doro PDF printer the sz development C 💾 Free
(donations welcome)
Drumlin PDF Reader/Publisher Drumlin Security V+P 💾 Free
Foxit Reader Foxit Software V+P CLI 💾 Free
MUPDF Dirk Paehl V+C+P (6) CLI 💾 Free
Advanced PDF to Word Converter OfficeConvert.com C 💾 🛒
OXPS to XPS converter tool for Windows 7 SP1/Server 2008 R2 SP1 Microsoft C 💾 Free
(validation required)
PDF-XChange Viewer Tracker Software V+P 💾 Free
PDF2HTML Mikhail Kruk C CLI 💾 Free
PDF2Word Online BCL Technologies C 💾 Free
PDF995 Suite (PDF printer+) Software995.com C 💾 🛒
PDFZilla PDFZilla.com C 💾 🛒
Save as PDF or XPS for MS-Office 2007 Microsoft C 💾 Free
STDU Explorer STDUtility.com (5) 💾 Free
Sumatra PDF Krzysztof Kowalczyk V+P+C (7) CLI 💾 Free
Text Mining Tool Text-Mining-Tool.com/ C CLI 💾 Free
XPS Viewer Microsoft V+P CLI 💾 Free
Zilla PDF to TXT Converter PDFZilla.com C 💾 Free
 
Help Files
(hlp, hxs)
Product Programmer / Manufacturer Features Scriptable Download Purchase
HXS to CHM Converter JSWare C 💾 Free
Windows Help Program Microsoft V+P 💾 Free
(validation required)
 
eBooks
Product Programmer / Manufacturer Features Scriptable Download Purchase
Calibre Kovid Goyal V+C 💾 Free
KindleGen Amazon C CLI 💾 Free
Pandoc John MacFarlane C CLI 💾 Free
STDU Explorer STDUtility.com (5) 💾 Free
 
XML & XSLT
Product Programmer / Manufacturer Features Scriptable Download Purchase
AltovaXML Altova V+C OLE 💾 Free
XML Starlet Dago et al V CLI 💾 Free
 
Notes 1 With CopyExif, ExifTool and FxIF you can read and modify an image's EXIF data, but you cannot view nor change the image itself
  2 With FastPictureViewer WIC RAW Codec Pack you can view RAW images from Canon, Nikon, and others in Windows Explorer too
  3 DCRAW is a command line tool; it can convert RAW images and read metadata, but it cannot be used to view images
  4 SImage consists of SImageUtil.dll and SImg.exe; SImg.exe is a command line tool (wrapper for SImageUtil.dll), SImageUtil.dll is a DLL to be used for scripting; both can resize images and read metadata, but they cannot be used to view images
  5 STDU Explorer adds a preview pane to an otherwise very Windows Explorer like window with all of Explorer's context menus
  6 MUPDF contains a PDF viewer plus 6 other command line PDF utilities
  7 SumatraPDF can save PDF files as Unicode text (discarding all formatting and graphics, of course)
  8 Acrobat Wrapper is, as its name suggests, a wrapper for Adobe Reader, so Adobe Reader is still required
  9 The free (unlicensed) version of Bullzip Print to Word can print up to 2 pages, the paid version can print an unlimited number of pages

 


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