JHOVE Examples
1 Application
unix% jhove -c conf/jhove.conf
Jhove (Rel. 1.34.0, 2025-07-02)
Date: 2025-07-16 14:31:31 BST
App:
API: 1.34.0, 2025-07-02
Configuration: /home/cfw/apps/jhove/1.34.0/conf/jhove.conf
JhoveHome: /home/cfw/apps/jhove/1.34.0
Encoding: utf-8
TempDirectory: /tmp
BufferSize: 131072
Module: AIFF-hul 1.6.2
Module: ASCII-hul 1.4.2
Module: BYTESTREAM 1.4
Module: EPUB-ptc 1.4
Module: GIF-hul 1.4.3
Module: GZIP-kb 0.3
Module: HTML-hul 1.4.5
Module: JPEG-hul 1.5.4
Module: JPEG2000-hul 1.4.5
Module: PDF-hul 1.12.8
Module: PNG-gdm 1.3
Module: TIFF-hul 1.9.5
Module: UTF8-hul 1.7.5
Module: WARC-kb 1.2
Module: WAVE-hul 1.8.3
Module: XML-hul 1.5.5
OutputHandler: Audit 1.1
OutputHandler: JSON 1.4
OutputHandler: TEXT 1.8
OutputHandler: XML 1.14
Usage: java JHOVE [-c config] [-m module] [-h handler] [-e encoding] [-H handler] [-o output] [-x saxclass] [-t tempdir] [-b bufsize] [-l loglevel] [[-krs] dir-file-or-uri [...]]
Rights: Derived from software Copyright 2004-2011 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Version 1.7 to 1.11 independently released. Version 1.12 onwards released by Open Preservation Foundation. Released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
2 Module
unix% jhove -c conf/jhove.conf -m bytestream
Jhove (Rel. 1.34.0, 2025-07-02)
Date: 2025-07-16 14:32:26 BST
Module: BYTESTREAM
Release: 1.4
Date: 2018-10-01
Format: bytestream
MIMEtype: application/octet-stream
Feature: edu.harvard.hul.ois.jhove.canValidate
Feature: edu.harvard.hul.ois.jhove.canCharacterize
Methodology:
Well-formed: All bytestreams are well-formed
Vendor: Harvard University Library
Type: Educational
Address: Office for Information Systems, 90 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Telephone: +1 (617) 495-3724
Email: jhove-support@hulmail.harvard.edu
Note: This is the default format
Rights: Copyright 2003-2007 by JSTOR and the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
3 Output Handler
unix% jhove -c conf/jhove.conf -H xml
Jhove (Rel. 1.34.0, 2025-07-02)
Date: 2025-07-16 14:33:04 BST
Handler: XML
Release: 1.14
Date: 2025-03-12
Vendor: Harvard University Library
Type: Educational
Address: Office for Information Systems, 90 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Telephone: +1 (617) 495-3724
Email: jhove-support@hulmail.harvard.edu
Note: This output handler is defined by the XML Schema https://schema.openpreservation.org/ois/xml/xsd/jhove/jhove.xsd
Rights: Derived from software Copyright 2004-2011 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Version 1.8 release by Open Preservation Foundation. Released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
4 Identification
4.1 ASCII
unix% jhove -c conf/jhove.conf -k examples/ascii/control.txt
Jhove (Rel. 1.34.0, 2025-07-02)
Date: 2025-07-16 14:34:49 BST
RepresentationInformation: examples/ascii/control.txt
ReportingModule: ASCII-hul, Rel. 1.4.2 (2022-04-22)
LastModified: 2025-01-23 12:00:56 GMT
Size: 51
Format: ASCII
Status: Well-Formed and valid
MIMEtype: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
ASCIIMetadata:
LineEndings: LF
ControlCharacters: HT (0x09), VT (0x0B), FF (0x0C), SUB (0x1A)
Checksum: bae406b6
Type: CRC32
Checksum: 2774395cac046bf2fd1898ebed8a5f9a
Type: MD5
Checksum: 6753be3059ba36fd970ff620a7ebe3fff95c13fe
Type: SHA-1
Checksum: 098601a643b2147fc65bf6b7359aad65b3815cd3eed620db8943f49c94be4ed9
Type: SHA-256
4.2 UTF-8
unix% jhove -c conf/jhove.conf -k examples/utf-8/sample.txt
Jhove (Rel. 1.34.0, 2025-07-02)
Date: 2025-07-16 14:36:17 BST
RepresentationInformation: examples/utf-8/sample.txt
ReportingModule: UTF8-hul, Rel. 1.7.5 (2025-06-25)
LastModified: 2025-01-23 12:00:57 GMT
Size: 1297
Format: UTF-8
Status: Well-Formed and valid
MIMEtype: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
UTF8Metadata:
Characters: 937
UnicodeBlocks: Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, IPA Extensions, Greek and Coptic, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Thai, Georgian, Latin Extended Additional, Greek Extended, General Punctuation, Hiragana, Katakana, CJK Unified Ideographs, Hangul Syllables, Arabic Presentation Forms-A, Arabic Presentation Forms-B
LineEndings: LF
Checksum: e7ed40a0
Type: CRC32
Checksum: d89aac0e1c61d0aa2cf5051ce21f5838
Type: MD5
Checksum: 23ac4b4bd4abd597b98cf03906408eddcf3822b7
Type: SHA-1
Checksum: 01777740066802da8e6939638098b7d71064c1adc68d4fc565fde8d35fab870f
Type: SHA-256
4.3 PDF
unix% jhove -c conf/jhove.conf -k examples/pdf/ddap/DDAP_Singlev3.pdf
Jhove (Rel. 1.34.0, 2025-07-02)
Date: 2025-07-16 14:37:58 BST
RepresentationInformation: examples/pdf/ddap/DDAP_Singlev3.pdf
ReportingModule: PDF-hul, Rel. 1.12.8 (2025-03-12)
LastModified: 2025-01-23 12:00:57 GMT
Size: 21423
Format: PDF
Version: 1.3
Status: Well-Formed and valid
SignatureMatches:
PDF-hul
MIMEtype: application/pdf
Profile: Linearized PDF, ISO PDF/X-1, ISO PDF/X-1a
PDFMetadata:
Objects: 45
FreeObjects: 1
IncrementalUpdates: 1
DocumentCatalog:
PageLayout: SinglePage
PageMode: UseNone
Info:
Title: DDAP_Single3
Author: Frank Scott
Creator: QuarkXPress Passportª 4.11 [k]: AdobePS 8.7.2 (104)
Producer: Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Macintosh
CreationDate: Thu Jan 03 13:36:33 GMT 2002
ModDate: Tue Mar 26 13:27:45 GMT 2002
ID: 0x29a07bc8f2b880fced92f193e0e57c81, 0xd9f569fa0fe3a1db44b0cf6fc2f3854c
Filters:
FilterPipeline: FlateDecode
Fonts:
Type1:
Font:
BaseFont: PPJJFN+Futura-ExtraBold
FontSubset: true
FirstChar: 32
LastChar: 181
FontDescriptor:
FontName: PPJJFN+Futura-ExtraBold
Flags: Nonsymbolic, ForceBold
FontBBox: -249, -260, 1662, 1009
FontFile3: true
Encoding: WinAnsiEncoding
Font:
BaseFont: PPJIPF+Helvetica
FontSubset: true
FirstChar: 32
LastChar: 240
FontDescriptor:
FontName: PPJIPF+Helvetica
Flags: Nonsymbolic
FontBBox: -166, -225, 1000, 931
FontFile3: true
Encoding: MacRomanEncoding
Font:
BaseFont: PPJJCK+Helvetica-Bold
FontSubset: true
FirstChar: 32
LastChar: 240
FontDescriptor:
FontName: PPJJCK+Helvetica-Bold
Flags: Nonsymbolic, ForceBold
FontBBox: -170, -228, 1003, 962
FontFile3: true
Encoding: MacRomanEncoding
Font:
BaseFont: PPJIPF+Helvetica
FontSubset: true
FirstChar: 32
LastChar: 181
FontDescriptor:
FontName: PPJIPF+Helvetica
Flags: Nonsymbolic
FontBBox: -166, -225, 1000, 931
FontFile3: true
Encoding: WinAnsiEncoding
XMP: <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'
xmlns:iX='http://ns.adobe.com/iX/1.0/'>
<rdf:Description about=''
xmlns='http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/'
xmlns:pdf='http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/'>
<pdf:CreationDate>2002-01-03T13:36:33Z</pdf:CreationDate>
<pdf:Producer>Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Macintosh</pdf:Producer>
<pdf:Author>Frank Scott</pdf:Author>
<pdf:Creator>QuarkXPress Passportª 4.11 [k]: AdobePS 8.7.2 (104)</pdf:Creator>
<pdf:Title>DDAP_Single3</pdf:Title>
<pdf:ModDate>2002-03-26T13:27:45-05:00</pdf:ModDate>
</rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description about=''
xmlns='http://ns.adobe.com/pdfx/1.3/'
xmlns:pdfx='http://ns.adobe.com/pdfx/1.3/'>
<pdfx:GTS_PDFXConformance>PDF/X-1a:2001</pdfx:GTS_PDFXConformance>
<pdfx:Apag_PDFX_Checkup>1.3</pdfx:Apag_PDFX_Checkup>
<pdfx:GTS_PDFXVersion>PDF/X-1:2001</pdfx:GTS_PDFXVersion>
</rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description about=''
xmlns='http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/'
xmlns:xap='http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/'>
<xap:CreateDate>2002-01-03T13:36:33Z</xap:CreateDate>
<xap:Author>Frank Scott</xap:Author>
<xap:Title>
<rdf:Alt>
<rdf:li xml:lang='x-default'>DDAP_Single3</rdf:li>
</rdf:Alt>
</xap:Title>
<xap:ModifyDate>2002-03-26T13:27:45-05:00</xap:ModifyDate>
<xap:MetadataDate>2002-03-26T13:27:45-05:00</xap:MetadataDate>
</rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description about=''
xmlns='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'
xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'>
<dc:creator>Frank Scott</dc:creator>
<dc:title>DDAP_Single3</dc:title>
</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>
Pages:
Page:
Label: 1
Checksum: 5b07663e
Type: CRC32
Checksum: 2f23f6c3b04644cda146d2c72069ad55
Type: MD5
Checksum: 3294a96298b59e14660b022ecc1f4b7569fa781c
Type: SHA-1
Checksum: 07b83f0165a1392997329b5d65fe169b64698d43a9eb7a3be975cc42b2ec31fe
Type: SHA-256
4.4 TIFF
unix% jhove -c conf/jhove.conf -k examples/tiff/little-endian.tif
Jhove (Rel. 1.34.0, 2025-07-02)
Date: 2025-07-16 14:39:05 BST
RepresentationInformation: examples/tiff/little-endian.tif
ReportingModule: TIFF-hul, Rel. 1.9.5 (2024-08-22)
LastModified: 2025-01-23 12:00:57 GMT
Size: 26292
Format: TIFF
Version: 5.0
Status: Well-Formed and valid
SignatureMatches:
TIFF-hul
MIMEtype: image/tiff
Profile: TIFF/IT-BP/P2 (ISO 12639:1998)
TIFFMetadata:
ByteOrder: little-endian
IFDs:
Number: 1
IFD:
Offset: 8
Type: TIFF
Entries:
NisoImageMetadata:
FormatName: image/tiff
ByteOrder: little_endian
CompressionScheme: CCITT Group 4
ImageWidth: 2948
ImageHeight: 4620
ColorSpace: white is zero
ScanningSoftware: Pixel Translations Inc., PIXTIFF Version 54.2.210
Orientation: normal
SamplingFrequencyUnit: inch
XSamplingFrequency: 600
YSamplingFrequency: 600
BitsPerSample: 1
BitsPerSampleUnit: integer
SamplesPerPixel: 1
NewSubfileType: 0
SampleFormat: 1
MinSampleValue: 0
MaxSampleValue: 1
Threshholding: 1
T6Options: 0
StripOffsets: 520
RowsPerStrip: 4620
StripByteCounts: 25772
PlanarConfiguration: 1
TIFFITProperties:
BackgroundColorIndicator: background not defined
ImageColorIndicator: image not defined
TransparencyIndicator: no transparency
PixelIntensityRange: 0, 1
RasterPadding: 1 byte
BitsPerRunLength: 8
BitsPerExtendedRunLength: 16
Checksum: d26149d3
Type: CRC32
Checksum: ce0ffcb1c1662240edbab4903d6307c5
Type: MD5
Checksum: 304ac95579c21f3498dfdff71107d3845220d34f
Type: SHA-1
Checksum: 4f5c8da2f18e726b9a76b2a4f56f73891787b5576e532b30fe076c63f1c17b22
Type: SHA-256