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The Thousand Types Total Commander plugin

Have you ever being checking what’s inside of a lot of documents such as PDFs or .doc files, spending a lot of time waiting for a new Acrobat Reader, MS-Word or Whatever-program to open, just to close it and continuing the process?

Have you ever wondered what a particular file contained and wanted to take a look at its contents, not having the associated application to open it?

This plugin allows TC to show a very quick text preview of almost every file format. It comes in two flavors: packer and lister plugin.

The Thousand Types packer plugin

Packer plugin allows Total Commander to very quickly “enter” (ctrl + pgDown) docs as if they were archives or folders. In that “simulated folder” you can see at a glance:

This info is shown as file names, so that you can have a very quick preview, and then if needed extract to a file or view the complete document’s metadata or contents.

ThousandTypes screenshot

The Thousand Types lister plugin (coming soon)

Lister plugin shows (F3) the text of the document in the integrated Total Commander Lister, even if you dont have the corresponding appplication.

Note: The first time you open a doc with a Java plugin, it will take a couple seconds as the JVM loads into memory; next times the preview is as quick as entering a folder in the local system.

FAQ

A thousand formats is an exaggeration, right?

No, it is for real. The plugin is based on Apache Tika, a toolkit that detects and extracts metadata and text from over a thousand different file types. Tika has also translation capabilities, to be incorporated in upcoming versions of the plugin.

Configure it based on your preferences

(Configuration coming soon) You can easily configure the plugin to show or hide every element in the “simulated folder”, and how is it presented.

This configuration can be done globally or per specific format.

Why can I only see PDF files associated to the plugin?

By default the plugin comes just associated to PDF files, for two reasons:

Don’t panic! TC lets you associate more extensions to the plugin and you can easily download and configure all the Tika parsers. (How to configure thousand types coming soon)

Download and resources

Troubleshooting guide

This interface and all derived plugins are written in Java, so you need to have installed a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). The Java plugin interface and derived plugins were tested on Oracle (Sun) JRE 1.8 (jre-8u311-windows-x64.exe).

In case you have any of the following issues, refer to the Troubleshooting guide

For other issues you can open a project issue or contact me - see next paragraphs.

Issues and things to-do

This is a work in progress. Help wanted! - in particular with Visual C++ issues.

Contact

If you have any comment, suggestion or problem regarding this java plugin, you can contact me at:

Please detail the specific version of: Java plugin interface, Total Commander and JRE that you are using.

Disclaimer

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

License

Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0, a strong copyleft license: https://github.com/moisescastellano/thousand-preview-plugin/blob/main/LICENSE