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PeaZip
is a free cross-platform easy to use archiver that provides an unified
portable GUI for many Open Source technologies like 7-Zip, FreeArc,
PAQ, UPX... free and simple alternative to WinRar, WinZip and
similar
proprietary software.
- Create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, *PAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, WIM, XZ, ZIP
files with ease
- Open and extract ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA,
RAR, UDF, ZIPX files and more, over 200 archive types
supported
Features of PeaZip includes: archives
opener and extractor, unace, unrar, unzip, batch
creation and extraction of multiple
archives at once, simple file converter, create
self-extracting archives, split & join files,
encryption with two factor authentication, encrypted password
manager, secure deletion, find
duplicates, hash and checksum files,
easily export job definition as script.
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PeaExtractor
is a simple, easy to use,
novice-friendly
archive extractor software, spin-off from
PeaZip free zip
utility project, and it
is built on same proven Open Source components, providing support for easy
extraction of 200+ archive file
types: 7Z, ACE, BZ2,
CAB, GZ, ISO, RAR, TAR,
ZIP format and many more
archive / compressed file types.
The program also allows to easily perform less basic functions, like
extracting encrypted files, join spanned multi
volume archives, and to try to unpack unknown file formats applying
extraction routines of supported archive types, in example it can
disassemble most of Windows DLL and EXE, Compound, MS Office, and Open
Office files types.
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Unlike
full-featured archive managers as 7-Zip, PeaZip, WinZip, WinRar
and similar utilities, which provides an explorer-like GUI (with file
compression and archive browsing/search features), PeaExtractor is
solely focused on decompressing archive files with ease (unace, unrar,
untar, unzip...), in the
shortest, simplest way, and provides an easy to use, user-friendly,
minimal, very intuitive GUI,
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Those packages contains only free, Open Source software under OSI
definition, and it does not contain any third party sponsored offers.
PeaExtractor is freeware and it is released under LGPLv3 license, free
of charge for any use (personal, professional, business,
government...), modification, and distribution.
Portable version, not requiring installation and not modifying host
system (not modifying file associations), is availablefor both for
Windows and Linux platforms, it is recommended as easiest way to deploy
the application: simply extract the package - i.e. with Windows'
Compressed Folder unzipper - and start peaextractor executable.
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2017 04 17
1.3
Improved UTF8 support
Application made DPI-aware
Various improvements and fixes
2016 08 14
1.2
Added full support
for Unicode filenames
Updated to 7z 16.02 / p7zip 15.14
Native support for
RAR5 files, legacy UNRAR5 plugin based
on RarLabs code is no longer needed
Updated to ZPAQ 7.05
2015 03 22
1.1
Fixed links to
online
PeaExtractor resources
Improved file selection dialog with custom filters for common archive
types
Reduced size of packages
2015 03 15
1.0
Initial version of
PeaExtractor, simple archive extraction tool, derived from pealauncher
component of PeaZip free
archiver, written
with Lazarus/FPC.
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Step
1: Open archive file
Open PeaExtractor and simply drag the file (a
single
.rar, or .zip, or .7z,
etc archive) you want to extract on it.
The software allows to take any kind of file as input, as it can
attempt unpacking files with unknown extension trying to handle them as
variants of known archive structures - that way in example PeaExtractor
can disassemble compound container files as Office / Open Office
formats, and some types of exe and dll files.
- first alternative,
click
"select file" to
select input archive using a standard file selection dialog
- second alternative,
click
"search" to
activate a standard
search dialog; search result can be dropped to the application for
extraction for maximum ease
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Simpler
alternative
to step 1: system's context menu (only for Windows installable versions)
Rightclick on the
desired input archive, from PeaExtractor context submenu chose
"Extract..." to be prompted extraction options (step 2).
Otherwise, click on
"Extract here" or "Extract here (in new folder)" for directly start the
extraction process without being required for other interaction (step
3).
As
PeaExtractor works on a
single archive at time (but more instances of the program can run
simultaneously), the context menu is shown only when a single file is
selected.
Context submenu is featured as group on Windows 7 and newer systems
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Step
2: Extraction options and password
Once the input archive is selected in step 1,
PeaExtractor shows an
user-friendly option screen allowing to customize decompression task.
Once needed options are
set confirm extraction with "OK" button.
Options, from the top:
PeaExtractor
supports unpacking of various encrypted file formats: 7Z, ARC, PEA,
RAR, ZIP, and ZIPX.
ZIP
format
allows different cryptography standards, PeaExtractor supports
ZipCrypto (legacy archives), PKZip's AES-based encryption, and WinZip
AE.
Keyfile filed is optional and can be
activated if it is needed to
decrypt a file created by PeaZip (.7z, .arc, .pea, .zip) using
two-factor authentication encryption.
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Step
3: Archive extraction
Once decompression is confirmed, an easily
readable progress
dialog GUI is shown as actual
extraction process takes places.
The task can be paused or cancelled from buttons in the lower area of
the application.
Input and outptut directories are clickable, to open them in system's
file explorer.
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Change program's
language
Click the hamburger menu on the top right
corner of
the application,
"Localization" entry opens translations directory, clicking on a
language file will apply it changing program's language. On Windows
installable versions "System context menu language" opens
directory of reg files, which translates the context menu entries.
Change or remove file
associations (Windows installable packages only)
File associations, so far, can be changed only
running setup: file
associations screen prompts a selection of supported known file
extensions that can be selected or deselected.
If de-associating a file extension does not restore your previous file
association with a custom program, you should usually run again your
custom program's setup or file association procedure, in order to let
said custom program take care of re-registering the file association in
the way it expects and needs to work.
Alternatively, Windows's standard "Open with" dialog is the easiest way
to create custom
file associations.
If you don't want to change system's default file associations, you can
de-select all of
them during the installation (an easy total exclusion checkbox is
provided),
or else use Portable version which does not modify the host system.
Create an archive
PeaExtractor project is focused solely on
de-compressing (unzipping) existing
archives in the most simple, easiest and user-friendly possible way,
like pure
extraction software as RarZilla, ExtractNow, or RAR
Extract Frog, easier to manage for novice users than full featured
archivers as WinRar, WinZip and similar applications.
PeaZip
free file archiver,
from same author, is recommended as free general purpose archiving
utility,
providing the ability to create
archives, edit existing
archives, and convert archive files
from one format to another - while
staying reasonably novice-friendly for this class of software tools.
Extract / join a
.001, .R01,
.Z01 file (multi-volume spanned archive) with ease
PeaExtractor
can easily join a split file (file
separated in
chuncks of
pre-defined size with utilities like HJSplit, or Unix "split" command,
in example to make each part smaller than mail attachment or upload
size limit), and can as well easily extract most
types of spanned archive - archives split on a set of multiple volumes
each containing part of the input data.
You need to have all parts of the archive (usually you can check
progressive number in file extension) saved
into the same directory, then select for extraction with
PeaExtractor the first volume of the
set (the one with lowest progressive number, i.e. .000 or .001),
and all following volumes will be extracted as well.
Hint: .R01 usually stays
for spanned RAR files, and .Z01 stays for
spanned WinZip .ZIP file, while 7Z can be commonly found as raw
byte-to-byte split file with .001 extension: in any case start to unzip
first volume, the one with "1" numerator in extension.
Easily extract
ACE files (unace)
WinAce
team
provides a royalty-free dll (Windows)
and so (Linux) for reading and extracting
ACE archives free, but being
closed source software this tool cannot be included in main
PeaExtractor
packages, which contains only Open Source components.
To handle ACE files with PeaExtractor you need to separately download
and install UnAce
Plugin from PeaExtractor plugin
directory. No easier way to support ACE extraction is available, as
unace routines needs to be provided as separate download due its closed
source licensing.
Easily extract
RAR / RAR5 files (unrar)
PeaExtractor
supports free extraction (unrar) of RAR files,
both RAR 4 and RAR5 standard, out of the box
from release 1.2.
Eeasily extract
TGZ, TBZ,
TAR.GZ,
or TAR.BZ2 file (untar)
TAR format, very common on Linux systems and other
Unix derivates (as
Android) provides only archiving features (consolidate multiple input
file and their metadata in a single output archive), without providing
compression, so it is usually chained with Gzip, BZip2 or other forms
of compression (recently, 7-Zip's XZ).
Compressed TAR archives can be found with single file extension (tgz,
tbz, taz, txz...) or double file extension (tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar.z,
tar.xz...).
Extracting a compressed TAR
archive (untar) with PeaExtractor is a two
step
process, as first extraction will uncompress the actual TAR file, and
the second passage will, if desired by the user, unarchive the data
embedded into the TAR
container.
PeaExtractor fully supports new compression
algorithms
(PPMd, LZMA)
WinZip introduced in ZIPX standard, but does not support some of the
additional proprietary algorithms employed for some special cases
(usually for optimized multi-media data compression), so it is
generally possible to unzip WinZip's .zipx files but some
incompatibilities can be encountered.
Open the archive
for
browsing or searching, to check if it contains what I'm looking for
PeaExtractor
is a pure file extractor and lacks archive browsing / searching options
of full featured archive managers as WinRar (shareware), WinZip
(commercial), 7-Zip, PeaZip (both free and Open Source) and similar
tools.
PeaZip, from
same author, is the recommended choice if a powerful archive explorer,
and more advanced file manager and
archive browser features, are needed.
Run as administrator
(Windows)
Option to run the
application as
administrator should be available rightclicking PeaExtractor
executable on most of recent Windows operating systems. Alternatively
click the hamburger menu (top right corner of
the GUI), and select "Run as administrator". In this way the program
will be able to extract files to reserved paths, which otherwise would
end in error due to missing file writing credentials.
Updates, help and
other online resources
Easiest way to update the application is to
click the hamburger menu on the top right
corner
of PeaExtractor, this shows the links to online resources (help,
downloads...).
F1 help hotkey brings to this page.
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