---
name: "jhove"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "jhove"
version: "1.28.0+dfsg2-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/jhove"
---

# jhove(1)

identify, validate, and characterize digital objects.

## NAME

jhove, jhove-gui - identify, validate, and characterize digital objects.

## SYNOPSIS

**jhove** \[*options*\] *files*...\
 **jhove-gui**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **jhove** and **jhove-gui** commands.

**jhove-gui** has a graphical user interface and no significant command line options. **jhove** has a command line interface, see full documentation online at http://jhove.openpreservation.org/getting-started

## AUTHOR

JHOVE is copyright JSTOR and the President and Fellows of Harvard College, and the authors are not listed in the program source code.

This manual page was written by Jeff Breidenbach \<jab@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).