Scalpel is a data carving and indexing application.
Scalpel is not under active maintenance.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Minimum carve sizes.
- Multithreading for quicker execution on multicore CPUs.
- Asynchronous I/O that allows disk operations to overlap with pattern matching which results in a substantial performance improvement.
- Regular expression support for headers/footers.
- Embedded header/footer matching for better processing of structured file types that may contain embedded files.
- For advanced users, support for massively-threaded execution on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).
Website: github.com/sleuthkit/scalpel
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Developer: Basis Technology Corp.
License: Apache License Version 2.0
Scalpel is written in C and C++. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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