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Extract archives
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ScanCode-Toolkit provides archive extraction. This command can be used before running a scan over
a codebase in order to ensure all archives are extracted. Archives found inside an extracted
archive are extracted recursively. Extraction is done in-place in a directory and named after the
archive with ``'-extract'`` appended.

.. image:: data/scancode-toolkit-extract.png

**Usage:**

::

   extractcode [OPTIONS] <input>

For other available options see also :ref:`cli-extractcode` reference.
