Okteta is a simple editor for the raw data of files.
This type of program is also called hex editor or binary editor.
The data is displayed in two variants: as the numeric values of the bytes and as the characters assigned to the values. Values and characters can be shown either in two columns (the traditional display in hex editors) or in rows with the value on top of the character. Editing can be done both for the values and for the characters.
Besides the usual editing capabilities Okteta also brings a small set of tools, like a table listing decodings into common simple data types, a table listing all possible bytes with its’ character and value equivalents, an info view with a statistic, a checksum calculator, a filter tool and a string extraction tool. All modifications to the data loaded can be endlessly undone or redone.
Okteta is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Values and characters shown either in two columns (the traditional display in hex editors) or in rows with the value on top of the character.
- Editing and navigating similar to a text editor.
- Customizable data views.
- Data view profiles.
- Tools dockable on all sides or floating.
- Numerical encodings: Hexadecimal, Decimal, Octal, Binary.
- Character encodings: All 8-bit encodings as supplied by Qt, EBCDIC.
- Fast data rendering on screen.
- Multiple open files.
- Support for remote files, by http, ftp, fish & other protocols supported by KDE Platform.
- Export of data to text, both file and clipboard.
- Checksum/Hashsum calculator: Modular sum (8/16/32/64 bit), Adler-32, CRC-32 and Hashsums by the QCA2 library, can be SHA-0/1/224/256/384/512, MD2/4/5, RIPEMD-160, Whirlpool.
- Structures tool for analyzing and editing based on user-creatable structure definitions.
- Statistic tool.
- String extraction tool.
- 8-bit charset conversion tool.
- Decoding table listing common simple data types.
- Bookmarks.
- Printing.
- Table with complete list of all byte values.
Website: kde.org/applications/utilities/okteta
Support:
Developer: Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
License: GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 3
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