Bulk Extractor News and Downloads

File bulk_extractor-1.3.1.zip contains the source code for bulk_extractor v1.3.1.  bulk_extractor is a C++ program that scans a disk image, a file, or a directory of files and extracts useful information without parsing the file system or file system structures.  bulk_extractor is typically downloaded on a Fedora system and compiled or cross-compiled to Linux, Mac, or Windows using autotools.  Please see https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor/wiki/Introducing-bulk_extractor.

BEViewer.jar is an executable bulk_extractor viewer user interface.
Bulk Extractor Viewer (BEViewer) provides a graphical user interface for browsing features that have been extracted via the bulk extractor feature extraction tool.  Please see https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor/wiki/BEViewer.

be_installer-1.3.exe is a Windows installer for installing bulk_extractor and BEViewer v1.3 on a Windows system.

bulk_extractor.pdf, “Digital media triage with bulk data analysis and bulk-extractor,” discusses how the bulk_extractor tool is effective in providing bulk data analysis.

2012-08-08 bulk_extractor Tutorial.pdf describes how to use the BEViewer tool.  Although some of the parameters for running bulk_extractor have changed, the majority of the tutorial remains current..

Source: The information above and links were received from Bruce Allen <bdallen@nps.edu>, Naval Postgraduate School

See other bulk_extractor downloads here: http://digitalcorpora.org/downloads/bulk_extractor/