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| author | Matthias Baumgartner <dev@igsor.net> | 2023-03-05 19:22:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Matthias Baumgartner <dev@igsor.net> | 2023-03-05 19:22:58 +0100 |
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diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9cf06fe --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ + +Black Star Information Extraction +================================= + +A major advantage of the `Black Star File System (BSFS) <https://www.bsfs.io/bsfs/>`_ +is its ability to store various kinds of (meta)data associated with a file. +However, the BSFS itself is only a storage solution, +it does not inspect files or collect information about them. + +The Black Star Information Extraction (BSIE) package fills this gap by +extracting various kinds of information from a file and pushing that data to a BSFS instance. + +BSIE has the ability to process numerous file formats, +and it can turn various aspects of a file into usable information. +This includes metadata from a source file system, +metadata stored within the file, +and even excerpts or feature representations of the file's content itself. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + installation + architecture + api/modules + + |