On the Shoulders of Giants

QuickLook is standing on shoulders of several open-source libraries, named

• AvalonEdit: the WPF-based text editor component used in SharpDevelop
• dcraw: decoding raw digital photos in Linux
• CsvHelper: reading and writing CSV files. Extremely fast, flexible and easy to use
• ExifLib: a fast Exif data extractor for .NET 2.0+
• FFmpeg: a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video
• FFmpegMediaElement: WPF MediaElement replacement based on FFmpeg
• Font-Awesome-WPF: WPF & UWP controls for the iconic font and CSS toolkit Font Awesome
• github-markdown-css: The minimal amount of CSS to replicate the GitHub Markdown style
• ImageMagick: convert, edit, or compose bitmap images
• JQuery Automatic Table of Contents, generate ToC from Html tags on the fly
• Magick.NET: The .NET wrapper for the ImageMagick library
• markdown-it: markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed
• MSGReader: C# Outlook MSG file reader without the need for Outlook
• MuPdf: lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer
• PreviewHandlerHost: IPreviewHandler Revisited
• SharpCompress: a fully managed C# library to deal with many compression types and formats
• Sumatra PDF: a PDF, ePub, MOBI, CHM, XPS, DjVu, CBZ, CBR reader for Windows
• UTF-unknown: charset detector build in C# - .NET standard 1.0 & .NET 4+
• WpfWebBrowserWrapper: a better WPF-Browser-Control (IE-Wrapper)
• XamlAnimatedGif: a simple library to display animated GIF images in XAML apps