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1 A Fast Method for Identifying Plain Text Files |
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8 Given a file coming from an unknown source, it is sometimes desirable |
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9 to find out whether the format of that file is plain text. Although |
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10 this may appear like a simple task, a fully accurate detection of the |
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11 file type requires heavy-duty semantic analysis on the file contents. |
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12 It is, however, possible to obtain satisfactory results by employing |
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13 various heuristics. |
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15 Previous versions of PKZip and other zip-compatible compression tools |
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16 were using a crude detection scheme: if more than 80% (4/5) of the bytes |
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17 found in a certain buffer are within the range [7..127], the file is |
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18 labeled as plain text, otherwise it is labeled as binary. A prominent |
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19 limitation of this scheme is the restriction to Latin-based alphabets. |
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20 Other alphabets, like Greek, Cyrillic or Asian, make extensive use of |
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21 the bytes within the range [128..255], and texts using these alphabets |
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22 are most often misidentified by this scheme; in other words, the rate |
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23 of false negatives is sometimes too high, which means that the recall |
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24 is low. Another weakness of this scheme is a reduced precision, due to |
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25 the false positives that may occur when binary files containing large |
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26 amounts of textual characters are misidentified as plain text. |
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28 In this article we propose a new, simple detection scheme that features |
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29 a much increased precision and a near-100% recall. This scheme is |
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30 designed to work on ASCII, Unicode and other ASCII-derived alphabets, |
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31 and it handles single-byte encodings (ISO-8859, MacRoman, KOI8, etc.) |
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32 and variable-sized encodings (ISO-2022, UTF-8, etc.). Wider encodings |
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33 (UCS-2/UTF-16 and UCS-4/UTF-32) are not handled, however. |
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39 The algorithm works by dividing the set of bytecodes [0..255] into three |
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41 - The allow list of textual bytecodes: |
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42 9 (TAB), 10 (LF), 13 (CR), 32 (SPACE) to 255. |
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43 - The gray list of tolerated bytecodes: |
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44 7 (BEL), 8 (BS), 11 (VT), 12 (FF), 26 (SUB), 27 (ESC). |
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45 - The block list of undesired, non-textual bytecodes: |
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49 no byte that belongs to the block list, then the file is categorized as |
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50 plain text; otherwise, it is categorized as binary. (The boundary case, |
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62 widely-used, almost universally-portable control codes are 9 (TAB), |
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64 recognized on a reduced range of platforms and text viewers/editors: |
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68 XML avoid using control characters outside the list mentioned here. |
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72 detection schemes observe the presence of non-ASCII codes from the range |
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82 consistent results, regardless what alphabet encoding is being used. |
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