Chapter 13: Extracting Geolocation and Metadata from Documents, Images, and Browsers

Metadata consists of a series of tags that describe various information about a file. The information they store can vary widely depending on how the file was created and with what format, author, creation date, and operating system.

This chapter covers the main modules we have in Python for extracting information about a geolocation IP address, extracting metadata from images and documents, and identifying the web technology used by a website. Also, we will cover how to extract metadata for the Chrome and Firefox browsers and information related to downloads, cookies, and history data stored in sqlite database.

This chapter will provide us with basic knowledge ...

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