https://github.com/stsquad/find_text

A simple text finding utility for recovering text files from file-system dumps
https://github.com/stsquad/find_text

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A simple text finding utility for recovering text files from file-system dumps

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/stsquad/find_text
• Owner: stsquad
• Created: 2011-01-05T14:21:39.000Z (over 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-05-17T13:48:16.000Z (about 15 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-05-01T12:07:28.147Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 97.7 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README

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README

          
find_text - a simple text finder written in Python

(C) 2010 Alex Bennée

Licensed under the GPL v3

This program is designed to extract text files from binary dumps (for example dd dumps).

It was written to recover a bunch of wiki text from a hard disk recovery. While tools

like scalpel, foremost and photorec are brilliant for retrieving structured data they suck

at plain text as there are no well formed headers to search for.

The program is very simple and fairly dumb and relies on files being sequential in the data dump.