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1 A Fast Method for Identifying Plain Text Files
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5 Introduction
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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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36 The Algorithm
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39 The algorithm works by dividing the set of bytecodes [0..255] into three
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40 categories:
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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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46 0 (NUL) to 6, 14 to 31.
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48 If a file contains at least one byte that belongs to the allow list and
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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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51 when the file is empty, automatically falls into the latter category.)
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54 Rationale
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57 The idea behind this algorithm relies on two observations.
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59 The first observation is that, although the full range of 7-bit codes
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60 [0..127] is properly specified by the ASCII standard, most control
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61 characters in the range [0..31] are not used in practice. The only
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62 widely-used, almost universally-portable control codes are 9 (TAB),
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63 10 (LF) and 13 (CR). There are a few more control codes that are
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64 recognized on a reduced range of platforms and text viewers/editors:
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65 7 (BEL), 8 (BS), 11 (VT), 12 (FF), 26 (SUB) and 27 (ESC); but these
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66 codes are rarely (if ever) used alone, without being accompanied by
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67 some printable text. Even the newer, portable text formats such as
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68 XML avoid using control characters outside the list mentioned here.
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70 The second observation is that most of the binary files tend to contain
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71 control characters, especially 0 (NUL). Even though the older text
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72 detection schemes observe the presence of non-ASCII codes from the range
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73 [128..255], the precision rarely has to suffer if this upper range is
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74 labeled as textual, because the files that are genuinely binary tend to
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75 contain both control characters and codes from the upper range. On the
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76 other hand, the upper range needs to be labeled as textual, because it
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77 is used by virtually all ASCII extensions. In particular, this range is
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78 used for encoding non-Latin scripts.
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80 Since there is no counting involved, other than simply observing the
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81 presence or the absence of some byte values, the algorithm produces
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82 consistent results, regardless what alphabet encoding is being used.
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83 (If counting were involved, it could be possible to obtain different
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84 results on a text encoded, say, using ISO-8859-16 versus UTF-8.)
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86 There is an extra category of plain text files that are "polluted" with
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87 one or more block-listed codes, either by mistake or by peculiar design
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88 considerations. In such cases, a scheme that tolerates a small fraction
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89 of block-listed codes would provide an increased recall (i.e. more true
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90 positives). This, however, incurs a reduced precision overall, since
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91 false positives are more likely to appear in binary files that contain
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92 large chunks of textual data. Furthermore, "polluted" plain text should
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93 be regarded as binary by general-purpose text detection schemes, because
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94 general-purpose text processing algorithms might not be applicable.
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95 Under this premise, it is safe to say that our detection method provides
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96 a near-100% recall.
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