Enciclopedia de formatos de archivos informáticos

La base de datos técnica definitiva sobre formatos de archivos informáticos. Explora firmas de cabecera a nivel de bytes (bytes mágicos), espacios de color, algoritmos de compresión, creadores, estándares RFC y herramientas interactivas de conversión y compresión.

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Diereses técnicas de formatos principales

Portable Document Format
.pdf
Magic: 25 50 44 46

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a ubiquitous digital paper standard designed to present documents consistently independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

Creador: Dr. John Warnock & Adobe Camelot Project (1993)
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Portable Network Graphics
.png
Magic: 89 50 4E 47 0D 0A 1A 0A

Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is an unencumbered raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression, indexed colors, and variable alpha channel transparency.

Creador: PNG Development Group (Thomas Boutell, Glenn Randers-Pehrson) (1995)
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Joint Photographic Experts Group
.jpg
Magic: FF D8 FF

JPEG is the most widely adopted lossy compression standard for digital photography and web imagery, exploiting the human eye's higher sensitivity to luminance over chrominance.

Creador: Joint Photographic Experts Group (1992)
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Google Web Picture Format
.webp
Magic: 52 49 46 46

WebP is a modern image format developed by Google that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for web images, supporting both alpha transparency and animated frames.

Creador: Google (based on On2 Technologies VP8 video codec) (2010)
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AV1 Image File Format
.avif
Magic: 66 74 79 70 61 76 69 66

AVIF is a next-generation open image format derived from the AV1 video codec, delivering cutting-edge compression efficiency, high dynamic range (HDR), and wide color gamuts.

Creador: Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) (2019)
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Scalable Vector Graphics
.svg
Magic: 3C 73 76 67

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics with support for interactivity, CSS styling, and animation.

Creador: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (2001)
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Office Open XML Document
.docx
Magic: 50 4B 03 04

DOCX is a zipped, XML-based file format developed by Microsoft for word processing documents, standardizing Word documents under the Office Open XML specification.

Creador: Microsoft (2006)
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ZIP Compressed Archive
.zip
Magic: 50 4B 03 04

ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression, allowing multiple files and directories to be packaged into a single transportable container.

Creador: Phil Katz (PKWARE) (1989)
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Graphics Interchange Format
.gif
Magic: 47 49 46 38

The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is an 8-bit palette-based raster image format developed by CompuServe, celebrated worldwide for popularizing short looping animations on the early web.

Creador: Steve Wilhite (CompuServe) (1987)
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JavaScript Object Notation
.json
Magic: 7B or 5B

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a lightweight, human-readable text format for data interchange, completely language-independent and universally used for web APIs.

Creador: Douglas Crockford (2001)
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Comma-Separated Values
.csv
Magic: Plain Text

Comma-Separated Values (CSV) is a ubiquitous plain-text format for tabular data, where each line represents a data record and fields are separated by delimiter characters.

Creador: IBM / Early Computing Pioneers (1972)
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Extensible Markup Language
.xml
Magic: 3C 3F 78 6D

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a versatile markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.

Creador: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C Working Group) (1998)
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