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## Screenshots
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## Features
-- Featureful hex view
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+ Featureful hex view
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- Byte patching
- Patch management
- - Copy bytes as feature
+ - Infinite Undo/Redo
+ - "Copy bytes as..."
- Bytes
- Hex string
- C, C++, C#, Rust, Python, Java & JavaScript array
- ASCII-Art hex view
- HTML self-contained div
- - String and hex search
- - Colorful highlighting
+ - Simple string and hex search
- Goto from start, end and current cursor position
-- Custom C++-like pattern language for parsing highlighting a file's content
- - Automatic loading based on MIME type
- - arrays, pointers, structs, unions, enums, bitfields, namespaces, little and big endian support, conditionals and much more!
+ - Colorful highlighting
+ - Configurable foreground highlighting rules
+ - Background highlighting using patterns, find results and bookmarks
+ - Displaying data as a list of many different types
+ - Hexadecimal integers (8, 16, 32, 64 bit)
+ - Signed and unsigned decimal integers (8, 16, 32, 64 bit)
+ - Floats (16, 32, 64 bit)
+ - RGBA8 Colors
+ - HexII
+ - Binary
+ - Decoding data as ASCII and custom encodings
+ - Built-in support for UTF-8, UTF-16, ShiftJIS, most Windows encodings and many more
+ - Paged data view
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+ Custom C++-like pattern language for parsing highlighting a file's content
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+ - Automatic loading based on MIME types and magic values
+ - Arrays, pointers, structs, unions, enums, bitfields, namespaces, little and big endian support, conditionals and much more!
- Useful error messages, syntax highlighting and error marking
-- Doesn't burn out your retinas when used in late-night sessions
- - Dark mode by default, but a light mode is available as well
-- Data importing
+ - Support for visualizing many different types of data
+ - Images
+ - Audio
+ - 3D Models
+ - Coordinates
+ - Time stamps
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+ Theming support
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+ - Doesn't burn out your retinas when used in late-night sessions
+ - Dark mode by default, but a light mode is available as well
+ - Customizable colors and styles for all UI elements through shareable theme files
+ - Support for custom fonts
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+ Importing and Exporting data
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- Base64 files
- IPS and IPS32 patches
-- Data exporting
- - IPS and IPS32 patches
-- Data inspector allowing interpretation of data as many different types (little and big endian)
-- Huge file support with fast and efficient loading
-- String search
- - Copying of strings
- - Copying of demangled strings
-- File hashing support
- - CRC16 and CRC32 with custom initial values and polynomials
- - MD4, MD5
- - SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512
-- Diffing
- - Compare binaries and analyze differences with ease
-- Disassembler supporting many architectures (frontend for Capstone)
- - ARM32 (ARM, Thumb, Cortex-M, AArch32)
- - ARM64
- - MIPS (MIPS32, MIPS64, MIPS32R6, Micro)
- - x86 (16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit)
- - PowerPC (32-bit, 64-bit)
- - SPARC
- - IBM SystemZ
- - xCORE
- - M68K
- - TMS320C64X
- - M680X
- - Ethereum
- - RISC-V
- - WebAssembly
- - MOS65XX
- - Berkeley Packet Filter
-- Bookmarks
- - Region highlighting
- - Comments
-- Data Analyzer
+ - Markdown reports
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+ Data Inspector
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+ - Interpreting data as many different types with endianess, decimal, hexadecimal and octal support and bit inversion
+ - Unsigned and signed integers (8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64 bit)
+ - Floats (16, 32, 64 bit)
+ - Signed and Unsigned LEB128
+ - ASCII, Wide and UTF-8 characters and strings
+ - time32_t, time64_t, DOS date and time
+ - GUIDs
+ - RGBA8 and RGB65 Colors
+ - Copying and modifying bytes through the inspector
+ - Adding new data types through the pattern language
+ - Support for hiding rows that aren't used
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+ Node-based data pre-processor
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+ - Modify, decrypt and decode data before it's being displayed in the hex editor
+ - Modify data without touching the underlying source
+ - Support for adding custom nodes
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+ Loading data from many different data sources
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+ - Local Files
+ - Support for huge files with fast and efficient loading
+ - Raw Disks
+ - Loading data from raw disks and partitions
+ - GDB Server
+ - Access the RAM of a running process or embedded devices through GDB
+ - Intel Hex and Motorola SREC data
+ - Process Memory
+ - Inspect the entire address space of a running process
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+ Data searching
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+ - Support for searching the entire file or only a selection
+ - String extraction
+ - Option to specify minimum length and character set (lower case, upper case, digits, symbols)
+ - Option to specify encoding (ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 big and little endian)
+ - Sequence search
+ - Search for a sequence of bytes or characters
+ - Option to ignore character case
+ - Regex search
+ - Search for strings using regular expressions
+ - Binary Pattern
+ - Search for sequences of bytes with optional wildcards
+ - Numeric Value search
+ - Search for signed/unsigned integers and floats
+ - Search for ranges of values
+ - Option to specify size and endianess
+ - Option to ignore unaligned values
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+ Data hashing support
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+ - Many different algorithms available
+ - CRC8, CRC16 and CRC32 with custom initial values and polynomials
+ - Many default polynomials available
+ - MD5
+ - SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512
+ - Hashing of specific regions of the loaded data
+ - Hashing of arbitrary strings
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+ Diffing support
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+ - Compare data of different data sources
+ - Difference highlighting
+ - Table view of differences
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+ Integrated disassembler
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+ - Support for all architectures supported by Capstone
+ - ARM32 (ARM, Thumb, Cortex-M, AArch32)
+ - ARM64
+ - MIPS (MIPS32, MIPS64, MIPS32R6, Micro)
+ - x86 (16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit)
+ - PowerPC (32-bit, 64-bit)
+ - SPARC
+ - IBM SystemZ
+ - xCORE
+ - M68K
+ - TMS320C64X
+ - M680X
+ - Ethereum
+ - RISC-V
+ - WebAssembly
+ - MOS65XX
+ - Berkeley Packet Filter
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+ Bookmarks
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+ - Support for bookmarks with custom names and colors
+ - Highlighting of bookmarked region in the hex editor
+ - Jump to bookmarks
+ - Open content of bookmark in a new tab
+ - Add comments to bookmarks
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+ Featureful data analyzer and visualizer
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- File magic-based file parser and MIME type database
- - Byte distribution graph
+ - Byte type distribution graph
- Entropy graph
- Highest and average entropy
- Encrypted / Compressed file detection
-- Built-in Content Store
- - Download all files found in the database directly from within ImHex
-- Yara Rules support
- - Quickly scan a file for vulnerabilities with official yara rules
-- Helpful tools
- - Itanium and MSVC demangler
+ - Digram and Layered distribution graphs
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+ YARA Rule support
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+ - Scan a file for vulnerabilities with official yara rules
+ - Highlight matches in the hex editor
+ - Jump to matches
+ - Apply multiple rules at once
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+ Helpful tools
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+ - Itanium, MSVC, Rust and D-Lang demangler based on LLVM
- ASCII table
- Regex replacer
- Mathematical expression evaluator (Calculator)
- - Hexadecimal Color picker
+ - Graphing calculator
+ - Hexadecimal Color picker with support for many different formats
- Base converter
+ - Byte swapper
- UNIX Permissions calculator
- Wikipedia term definition finder
- File utilities
- File splitter
- File combiner
- File shredder
+ - IEEE754 Float visualizer
+ - Division by invariant multiplication calculator
+ - TCP Client/Server
+ - Euclidean algorithm calculator
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+ Built-in Content updater
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+ - Download all files found in the database directly from within ImHex
+ - Pattern files for decoding various file formats
+ - Libraries for the pattern language
+ - Magic files for file type detection
+ - Custom data processor nodes
+ - Custom encodings
+ - Custom themes
+ - Yara rules
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+ Modern Interface
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+ - Support for multiple workspaces
+ - Support for custom layouts
+ - Detachable windows
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+ Easy to get started
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+ - Support for many different languages
+ - Simplified mode for beginners
+ - Extensive documentation
+ - Many example files available on [the Database](https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex-Patterns)
+ - Achievements guiding you through the features of ImHex
+ - Interactive tutorials
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## Pattern Language
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## Requirements
-To use ImHex, the following minimal system requirements need to be met:
+To use ImHex, the following minimal system requirements need to be met.
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+> [!IMPORTANT]
+> ImHex requires a GPU with OpenGL 3.0 support in general.
+> There are releases available (with the `-NoGPU` suffix) that are software rendered and don't require a GPU, however these can be a lot slower than the GPU accelerated versions.
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+> If possible at all, make ImHex use the dedicated GPU on your system instead of the integrated one (especially Intel HD GPUs are known to cause issues).
- **OS**:
- **Windows**: Windows 7 or higher (Windows 10/11 recommended)
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On macOS, Clang is also required to compile some ObjC code.
All releases are being built using latest available GCC.
-Many dependencies are bundled into the repository using submodules so make sure to clone it using the `--recurse-submodules` option.
-All dependencies that aren't bundled, can be installed using the dependency installer scripts found in the `/dist` folder.
+> [!NOTE]
+> Many dependencies are bundled into the repository using submodules so make sure to clone it using the `--recurse-submodules` option.
+> All dependencies that aren't bundled, can be installed using the dependency installer scripts found in the `/dist` folder.
For more information, check out the [Compiling](/dist/compiling) guide.