Browse File Formats by Category

Raster and vector image formats — from JPEG, PNG, and GIF to camera RAW, SVG, and PSD — with their magic bytes, MIME types, and byte offsets.

Audio and sound formats including MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, Ogg, and MIDI, and how to identify each by its binary header.

Container and codec formats for video — MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, WebM and more — and the magic bytes that distinguish them.

Page-description and document formats such as PDF, PostScript, DjVu, and XPS, with reliable signature-based detection.

Electronic book formats including EPUB, MOBI, AZW, and FB2, and the headers used to recognise them.

Word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation formats — Microsoft Office, OpenDocument, Lotus SmartSuite — and their file signatures.

Compression and archive formats like ZIP, 7z, RAR, tar, and gzip, and how to validate them by magic number.

Executable, library, and bytecode formats — Windows PE, ELF, Mach-O, Java class, WebAssembly — and their identifying headers.

Digital font formats including TrueType, OpenType, WOFF, and bitmap fonts, with signature-based identification.

Database and table-store file formats such as SQLite, Access, dBASE, and Firebird, and how to detect them.

Cryptographic certificate, key, and keystore formats — PEM, DER, PKCS#12, PGP — and their distinguishing magic bytes.

Computer-aided design and 3D model formats including STL, OBJ, STEP, FBX, and glTF, with reliable detection.

Disk, filesystem, and forensic image formats — ISO, DMG, VHD, VMDK, and EnCase E01 — and their headers.

Markup, stylesheet, and configuration formats such as HTML, XML, CSS, JSON, YAML, and TOML.

Programming and scripting source formats across C, Python, shell, and many other languages, plus how they are detected.

Email message and mailbox formats — Outlook, Thunderbird, mbox, and address books — and their identifying signatures.