# MDB Tools

> MDB Tools reads Microsoft Access MDB files and documents the Jet3 and Jet4 file format. Its libraries, command-line utilities and ODBC driver expose tables, schemas, queries and exported data; HACKING.md records page structures, offsets and other format findings.

- Type: Tool
- Targets: App
- Category: Binary analysis libraries
- Relationship: Foundation tool
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools/blob/96d6880ccf7b67fdb468c3546f2b815aabc91510/HACKING.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/mdb-tools/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/mdb-tools/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/mdb-tools/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Building from Git requires libtool, automake, autoconf 2.64 or newer and pkg-config; the SQL engine additionally needs bison 3.0 or newer and flex.
- **Limits:** MDB import and libmdb write support are experimental; tables with indexes are not handled correctly.
- **License:** Libraries use LGPL terms; utilities use GPL terms. The repository's COPYING file contains GPL version 2.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools/blob/96d6880ccf7b67fdb468c3546f2b815aabc91510/HACKING.md>
2. <https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools/blob/96d6880ccf7b67fdb468c3546f2b815aabc91510/README.md>

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