# Cross-platform microsoft access parser

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cross-platform-microsoft-access-parser/101022>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 2, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cross-platform-microsoft-access-parser/101022 "2006-08-02T22:34:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![aran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@aran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aran)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cross-platform-microsoft-access-parser/101022/1 "2006-08-02T22:34:28Z")

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Hi,

Is there an existing cross-platform library which can read microsoft  
access databases?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![aran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@aran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aran)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cross-platform-microsoft-access-parser/101022/2 "2006-08-03T14:23:27Z")

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Aran Donohue wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there an existing cross-platform library which can read microsoft  
> access databases?
> 
> Thank you!

I don’t know about cross-platform in a single tool, but there is an open  
source package “mdbtools” that works on at least Linux. It’s not clear  
you’d need something like that on Windows, since I think Access drivers  
are standard as part of ODBC. unixODBC also probably can talk to Access  
files.