# sepinf-inc/IPED

IPED Digital Forensic Tool. It is an open source software that can be used to process and analyze digital evidence, often seized at crime scenes by law enforcement or in a corporate investigation by private examiners.

Repository: https://github.com/sepinf-inc/IPED
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/iped
Language: Java
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: forensic, recovery, digital-forensics
Last push: 2026-08-25T14:22:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 83/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 53, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4100, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 158, "gap_med": 99.5, "n_releases_24m": 5}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2701, forks 466 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:11.376542+00:00)

## What it is
IPED is an open source digital forensic tool developed by the Brazilian Federal Police for processing and analyzing digital evidence from disk images and file systems. It offers command-line batch processing, hash deduplication, file carving, and an integrated GUI for case analysis.

## Use cases
- analyze disk images seized at crime scenes
- recover deleted files from forensic evidence
- deduplicate and categorize large case files by hash
- process E01, DD, VHD, and UFDR forensic image formats
- build searchable indexes of digital evidence
- run portable forensic cases from removable drives

## When to choose
- you need a free, open source alternative to commercial forensic suites like EnCase or FTK
- you process very large cases (hundreds of GB to millions of items) with multithreaded performance
- you need multiplatform support on Windows and Linux
- you want portable cases that run without installation

## When to avoid
- you need a simple point-and-click tool with minimal learning curve
- you require PhotoDNA or other law-enforcement-only features without proper authorization
- you need a lightweight utility for casual file recovery rather than full forensic case processing

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, data-science, parser, image-processing, developer-tools
- domain: security, files, developer-tools
- platform: windows, jvm, cross-platform
- tags: digital-forensics, evidence-analysis, disk-imaging, data-recovery, law-enforcement, case-management, sleuthkit, forensics, linux

## Member repositories
- sepinf-inc/IPED (main) score 83

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:11.376542+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:15:58.746805+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sepinf-inc/IPED (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:11.376542+00:00, sha b243d0987d63)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.