{
 "id": "hangul-word-processor-document-3",
 "name": "Hangul Word Processor Document",
 "category": "document",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "hwp"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/1083"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q28757958"
  ],
  "magic": [
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    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "48575020446f63756d656e742046696c652056332e3030201a0102030405",
    "notes": "HWP 3"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "HWP 3",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "48575020446f63756d656e742046696c652056332e3030201a0102030405"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
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 "status": "readable",
 "summary": "Hangul is a Word Processor application created by South Korean software company Hancom. HWP is the native format. A link to the file format specification can be found here: https://www.hancom.com/etc/hwpDownload.do",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "LibreOffice",
   "url": "https://www.libreoffice.org",
   "license": "MPL-2.0",
   "open_source": true,
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Hangul",
   "url": "https://www.hancom.com/product/productWindowsMain.do",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "MediaRich Server",
   "url": "https://equilibrium.com/mediarichserver/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  }
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 "projects": [
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   "name": "PRONOM fmt/1083",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/1083",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q28757958",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28757958",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/HWP",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "converters",
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-20",
 "version": "3",
 "conversions": [
  {
   "to": "opendocument",
   "tool": "LibreOffice",
   "command": "soffice --headless --convert-to odt in.hwp",
   "fidelity": "partial",
   "losses": "Layout may shift; macros and some features are not kept.",
   "url": "https://www.libreoffice.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "office-open-xml-wordprocessing-document-ecma-376-1st-edition",
   "tool": "LibreOffice",
   "command": "soffice --headless --convert-to docx in.hwp",
   "fidelity": "partial",
   "losses": "Layout may shift; macros and some features are not kept.",
   "url": "https://www.libreoffice.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "pdf",
   "tool": "LibreOffice",
   "command": "soffice --headless --convert-to pdf in.hwp",
   "fidelity": "partial",
   "losses": "Fixed layout: the document is no longer editable.",
   "url": "https://www.libreoffice.org"
  }
 ],
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": [],
 "family": "hwp"
}