Xena: Conversor de imágenes, audio, texto a formatos libres

Prueba del movimiento internacional de adopción de estándares libres y su eficiencia ,puede ser el hecho de que cada vez surgen más proyectos vinculados al software libre auspiciados y empleados por organismos públicos internacionales.

En este caso traigo al blog un proyecto que me parece sumamente interesante, es el proyecto Xena del los Archivos Nacionales de Australia, del gobierno Australiano.

La idea de este software es muy sencilla: recoger los ficheros que tengamos almacenados en cualquier directorio que queramos y convertirlos de modo automático (manteniendo los originales) a un formato libre equivalente (flac, png,...) , ya sean ficheros comprimidos, de audio, imágenes, correo electrónico,....

Para ello requiere, únicamente, tener instalado java (versión igual o posterior a la 1.5) y openoffice (2.0 o superior), al estar implementado en java es compatible tanto con sistemas Linux, Windows,....

Simplemente os bajáis de la página del proyecto el software y hacéis doble click sobre el fichero xena.jar para tener acceso a la aplicación de la imagen.

Para facilitaros las cosas os copio a continuación los formatos con los que trabaja y el tipo de fichero al que lo convertirá; eso sí, en inglés.

Ya sabes, si quieres convertir tus mp3, wav,.... de forma sencilla y totalmente desatendida, échale un vistazo a este proyecto

Format Conversion

During the process of normalisation, Xena will convert the following file types to the specified open format.
Should Xena be asked to normalise a file format not yet supported, the process will fall back to binary normalisation.

Archives and Compressed Files

GZIP	The archive is un-compressed and the resulting file is processed as normal.
JAR	All files are extracted from the archive and normalised into a separate Xena file. A Xena index file is created, which when opened in a Xena viewer, will display the files in a table.
MAC BINARY	The archive is un-compressed and the resulting file is processed as normal.
TAR	All files are extracted from the archive and normalised into a separate Xena file. A Xena index file is created, which when opened in a Xena viewer, will display the files in a table.
TAR.GZ	Works as a combination of 'GZIP' and 'TAR'. The archive is un-compressed and the resulting tar file extracted to reveal individual files for processing.
WAR	All files are extracted from the archive and normalised into a separate Xena file. A Xena index file is created, which when opened in a Xena viewer, will display the files in a table.
ZIP	All files are extracted from the archive and normalised into a separate Xena file. A Xena index file is created, which when opened in a Xena viewer, will display the files in a table.

Audio

AIFF	Converted to open format, FLAC.
FLAC	Already in an open format, so processed as binary.
MP3	Converted to open format, FLAC.
WAV	Converted to open format, FLAC.

Databases

SQL	Structured Query Language files are processed as plaintext wrapped in XML.

Documents

CSV/TSV	Comma and Tab Seperated Values based files are stored as a special case of plaintext.
DOC/PPS/PPT/XLS	Microsoft Office documents are converted to the Open Document Format.
HTML	Converted to XHTML.
ODS/ODP/ODT	Files in the Open Document Format are preserved as they are.
RTF	Rich Text Format is converted to Open Document Format.
SYLK	This spreadsheet format is converted to Open Document Format.
SXC/SXI/SXW	StarOffice formats are open, but are converted to the newer Open Document Format.
TXT	Stored in plaintext wrapped in XML.
WPD	This Word Perfect format is converted to Open Document Format.
WRI	Microsoft Write files are converted to Open Document Format.
XHTML	Stored in native open XHTML format.
XML	Stored in native open XML format.

Email

MBOX	Mailboxes are converted to individual XML files and a Xena index file is created which will display the files in a table when opened with Xena viewer.
PST	Mailboxes from Microsoft Outlook are converted to individual XML files and a Xena index file is created which will display the files in a table when opened with Xena viewer.
TRIM	Messages from TRIM are converted to XML and a Xena index file is created which will display the files in a table when opened with Xena viewer.

Graphics

BMP	Bitmap images are converted to the open format, PNG.
CUR	Windows cursor files are converted to PNG.
GIF	Converted to PNG.
JPEG	Stored in native format.
PCX	Converted to PNG.
PDF	Stored as binary.
PNG	Stored in its native open format.
PSD	Photoshop files are converted to PNG.
SVG	Scalable Vector Graphics files are XML, so preserved as is and wrapped in Xena XML.
TIFF	Converted to PNG with embedded metadata stored in Xena XML.
XBM	Converted to PNG.

Page Description

CSS	Stored as plaintext wrapped in XML.
Scripts	All scripting files are stored as plaintext.
XSLT	Stored as XML.

Fuentes:
Página del proyecto: http://xena.sourceforge.net/