Fred Eaker, a Software developer from North Carolina, tested different MIME-type Identification implementations available and wrote a blog post about it.

The result is, that our code from Aperture
performs with a significantly higher quality:
The detection accuracy of most libraries was less than 50%. However, the Aperture Framework's MagicMimeTypeIdentifier was extremely accurate. It was able to correctly identify many proprietary formats.

Thanks to Christiaan Fluit, who developed that code and invested much much time into it.


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