The File Expander Windows Software Development Kit is the first product created from this technology.  The Windows SDK includes a 32-bit Windows DLL with C# and managed C++.NET interfaces.  Each group of related file formats have their own secondary DLL.  If you don't need support for all of the supported file formats, then you will not have to distribute the unused DLLs with your product.

This product currently supports 110 file formats (or file types), and we are working on eventually supporting all of the file formats that the File Investigator Engine supports.  There are numerous applications for this technology:

• De-Duplication Backup
  • Compare the individual objects in similar files, and only backup a single copy of each block with pointers to the duplicate file locations
  • It's compression of an entire hard drive leveraging similarities across multiple files
• Disk Carving / File Carving / File Recovery
  • Break files down into their individual building blocks and discover what blocks are missing
  • Verify recovered files for integrity
• Document Management Text Indexing
  • Extract and de-fragment only data blocks that may contain text
  • High performance targeted text extraction
• Electronic Discovery
  • Dig down into fragmented, translated and compressed files for hidden and deleted data objects
  • Research digital evidence to better understand how the files are structured and be the expert in court
• Virus / Worm / Trojan Detection
  • Detect objects that don't belong in a file
  • MS Word Trojan Horses include the executable as an object and other good objects are modified to corrupt memory and execute the executable object

Image on the right: Example of a PK Zip file that contains 2 Word Documents 

The What's Next? page includes a timeline of our plans for the support of our current products and the addition of new products.