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# Welcome to IPED

> Open source digital forensics tool for processing and analyzing digital evidence

# IPED Digital Forensic Tool

IPED (Digital Evidence Processor and Indexer) is an open source software that processes and analyzes digital evidence seized at crime scenes by law enforcement or in corporate investigations by private examiners.

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  <Card title="Quick Start" icon="rocket" href="/quickstart">
    Get IPED running and process your first case
  </Card>

  <Card title="Installation" icon="download" href="/installation">
    Build from source or download a release
  </Card>

  <Card title="Processing Evidence" icon="gears" href="/processing/command-line">
    Learn command-line processing options
  </Card>

  <Card title="Analysis Interface" icon="magnifying-glass" href="/analysis/interface-overview">
    Explore the integrated analysis GUI
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## Key Features

IPED provides professional-grade digital forensics capabilities for law enforcement and corporate investigators.

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  <Card title="Fast Processing" icon="gauge-high">
    Up to 400GB/h processing speed with multithreaded architecture supporting up to 135 million items
  </Card>

  <Card title="Data Carving" icon="scissors">
    Efficient carving engine supporting 40+ file formats including videos, extensible by scripting
  </Card>

  <Card title="Advanced Search" icon="magnifying-glass-chart">
    Fast indexing and searching with regex support, OCR, face recognition, and similar document search
  </Card>

  <Card title="Timeline Analysis" icon="timeline">
    Unified timeline view with event filtering and graph analysis for communications
  </Card>

  <Card title="Custom Parsers" icon="messages">
    Specialized parsers for WhatsApp, Telegram, Skype, BitTorrent, Emule, and more
  </Card>

  <Card title="Extensible" icon="code">
    Script custom tasks in JavaScript and Python with external tool integration
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## Processing Profiles

IPED includes specialized processing profiles for different investigation types:

* **Forensic** - Complete forensic analysis with all features enabled
* **CSAM** - Optimized for child safety investigations with specialized detection
* **Triage** - Quick analysis for time-sensitive cases
* **Fastmode** - Preview processing for rapid assessment
* **Blind** - Automatic data extraction without manual intervention

## Supported Evidence Sources

Process multiple evidence types with comprehensive format support:

* **Disk Images**: RAW/DD, E01, EX01, ISO9660, AFF, VHD, VHDX, VMDK (including differential)
* **Mobile**: UFDR (Cellebrite), AD1 (AccessData), logical extractions
* **File Systems**: NTFS, FAT, exFAT, HFS+, APFS, Ext2/3/4
* **Containers**: Recursive expansion of dozens of archive and container formats

<Note>
  IPED was developed by digital forensic experts from the Brazilian Federal Police since 2012 and officially open-sourced in 2019.
</Note>


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