Peep

Peep is a data extraction utility that lets you:

• View any file in detail, view / save in any text encoding
• Displays each byte as data (decimal or hex notation) or as text
• Can take text directly from the clipboard
• Try different text encodings to find the correct one or the best fit
• Attempts to filter the text from a proprietary format
• Saves a text file using the same or another encoding

There are many different text encoding systems (ways of representing characters within a file) and a file doesn't necessarily carry information about the encoding that was used when it was saved. This can lead to frustrating problems when the file is opened.

Peep is a file viewing and text encoding utility which is useful when programming, when experiencing text encoding problems or when you need to extract information from a file that you can't open otherwise.

Allows you to view files in a 'hexeditor' style, it's not intended to be an editor but rather to inspect, access or sort out encoding problems.

• More ways to open a file:
  • drag the file onto the dock icon or application alias
  • drag the file into the table in the main window
• Improves auto-detection of the file encoding