When all data being scanned has already been extracted into individual files, it's usually not necessary to scan the file at every possible offset with each parser. Adding a startup option to only scan at offset 0 will make scanning much faster.
Command line options:
-nooffset : Don't scan for file formats beyond offset 0.
While looking at how each parser implements the same offset scanning behavior, I think it may be best to refactor them all to extend some type of OffsetReader base class that automatically handles this for them. This would also make it easier to allow disabling offset-based scanning for each parser without code duplication.
When all data being scanned has already been extracted into individual files, it's usually not necessary to scan the file at every possible offset with each parser. Adding a startup option to only scan at offset 0 will make scanning much faster.
Command line options:
While looking at how each parser implements the same offset scanning behavior, I think it may be best to refactor them all to extend some type of OffsetReader base class that automatically handles this for them. This would also make it easier to allow disabling offset-based scanning for each parser without code duplication.
-nooffsetcommand line option