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PSImaging Part 3: Group-ImageFile

Summary: Guest blogger, Ben Vierck, talks about grouping similar images with Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we have Ben Vierck back for Part 3 in his series about images. Before you begin, you might like to read: In first two blog posts of this series, we wrote the Windows PowerShell functions Test-...

PSImaging Part 2: Export-Text from Images

Summary: Guest blogger, Ben Vierck, talks about using Windows PowerShell to export text from an image. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Welcome back guest blogger Ben Vierck, for Part 2 of PSImaging. Read Part 1 before diving into today’s post: PSImaging Part 1: Test-Image. Now, here’s Ben... In first blog post of this ...

PowerTip: Read .exe Magic Number with PowerShell

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to see an .exe magic number. (image)  How can I use Windows PowerShell to see the "magic number" associated with an executable file in Windows? (image)  The term magic number refers to the bytes that occur at the beginning of every file and identify the format of file.   &...

PSImaging Part 1: Test-Image

Summary: Guest blogger, Ben Vierck, talks about using Windows PowerShell to determine if a file is an image. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. I am happy to introduce a new guest blogger here at the Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog: Ben Vierck. Ben has been around for a while, using and supporting Windows PowerShell, and he certainly is not...