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:
Shell or Run commands in KiXtart, VBScript, etc.
| 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 | |
| C (1) | CLI |
| 💾 | Free |
| dpMagic Plus | |
| dpMagic Software | |
| V | |
| 💾 | 🛒 |
| ExifTool | |
| Phil Harvey | |
| V (1) | |
| 💾 | Free (donations welcome) |
| FastPictureViewer WIC RAW Codec Pack | |
| Axel Rietschin | |
| V (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 | |
| V (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 | |
| V (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 |
| CMDMP3 | |
| Jim Lawless | |
| V | CLI |
| 💾 | Free |
| FFMPEG | |
| Baptiste Coudurier, Carl Eugen Hoyos, Michael Niedermayer, Thilo Borgmann, Tomas Härdin, Steven Liu, Gyan Doshi, et al | |
| C+V | CLI |
| 💾 | 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 | CLI |
| 💾 | 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 | |
| C (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 |
| xBaseView | |
| Mutex LLC | |
| V | |
| 💾 | 🛒 |
| Portable Documents (pdf, xps, oxps) |
|
| Product | |
| Programmer / Manufacturer | |
| Features | Scriptable |
| Download | Purchase |
| Acrobat Wrapper | |
| bioPDF | |
| P (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 | |
| V (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 | |
| V (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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