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RECOVERJPEG(1)							RECOVERJPEG(1)

NAME
       recoverjpeg - recover jpeg pictures from	a filesystem image

SYNOPSIS
       recoverjpeg [options] device

DESCRIPTION
       Recoverjpeg  tries  to  identify	jpeg pictures from a filesystem	image.
       To achieve this goal, it	scans the filesystem image  and	 looks	for  a
       jpeg structure at blocks	starting at 512	bytes boundaries.

       Salvaged	 jpeg  pictures	 are  stored  by  default  under  the name im-
       ageXXXXX.jpg where XXXXX	is a five digit	number starting	at  zero.   If
       there  are more than 100,000 recovered pictures,	recoverjpeg will start
       using six figures numbers and more as soon as needed, but  the  100,000
       first ones will use a five figures number.  Options -f and -i can over-
       ride this behaviour.

       recoverjpeg  stores  the	recovered pictures into	the current directory.
       If you want it to store them elsewhere, just go to  the	directory  you
       want  recoverjpeg  to save the images into (using the cd	command	at the
       shell prompt) and start recoverjpeg from	there, or use the -o option.

       Note that device	is not necessarily a physical device.  It may also  be
       a  file	containing  a copy of the faulty device	in order to reduce the
       actual processing time and the stress imposed to	an  already  defective
       hardware.   dd(1)  or  ddrescue(1) may be used to create	such a working
       copy.

OPTIONS
       -h     Display an help message.

       -b blocksize
	      Set the size of blocks in	bytes.	On most	file systems,  setting
	      it to 512	(the default) will work	fine as	any large file will be
	      stored  on  512  bytes boundaries.  Setting it to	1 maximize the
	      chances of finding very small files if  the  filesystems	aggre-
	      gates  them  (UFS	 for  example) at the expense of a much	longer
	      running time.

       -d formatstring
	      Set the directory	format string (printf-style, default: use  the
	      current directory).  When	used, 0	will be	used for the 100 first
	      images,  1 for the 100 next images, and so on.  The goal of this
	      option is	to circumvent the directory size limit imposed by some
	      file systems.

       -f formatstring
	      Set the file name	format	string	(printf-style,	default:  "im-
	      age%05d.jpg").   It  is  used with the image index as an integer
	      argument.

       -i integerindex
	      Set the initial index value for image numbering (default:	0).

       -m maxsize
	      Maximum size of extract jpeg files.  If a	file would  be	larger
	      than that, it is discarded.  The default is 6 MiB.

       -o directory
	      Change  the  working directory before restoring files.  Use this
	      option to	restore	files into a directory with enough  space  in-
	      stead of the current directory.  This option can be repeated.

       -q     Be quiet and do not display anything.

       -r readsize
	      Set  the readsize	in bytes.  By default, this is 128 MiB.	 Using
	      a	large readsize reduces the number of system calls but consumes
	      more memory.  The	readsize will automatically be adjusted	to  be
	      a	multiple of the	system page size.  It must be greater than the
	      maxsize parameter.

       -s cutoffsize
	      Set  the	cutoff size in bytes.  Files smaller than that will be
	      ignored.

       -S skipsize
	      Set the number of	bytes to skip at the beginning of the filesys-
	      tem image.  This can be used to resume an	 interrupted  session,
	      in conjunction with -i.  The number of bytes may be rounded down
	      to  be a multiple	of a memory page size in order to improve per-
	      formances.

       -v     Be verbose and describes the process of jpeg identification.  By
	      default, if this flag is not  used,  recoverjpeg	will  print  a
	      progress	bar  showing  how much it has analyzed already and how
	      many jpeg	pictures have been recovered.

       -V     Display program version and exit.

       All the sizes may be suffixed by	a k, m,	g, or  t  letter  to  indicate
       KiB,  MiB,  GiB,	 or TiB.  For example, 6m correspond to	6 MiB (6291456
       bytes).

EXAMPLES
       Recover as many pictures	as possible from the memory  card  located  in
       /dev/sdc:

	      recoverjpeg /dev/sdc

       Do the same thing but ignore files smaller than one megabyte:

	      recoverjpeg -s 1m	/dev/sdc

       Recover	as many	pictures as possible from a crashed ReiserFS file sys-
       tem (which does not necessarily store pictures at block boundaries)  in
       /dev/sdb1:

	      recoverjpeg -b 1 /dev/sdb1

       Do  the	same  thing  in	a memory constrained environment where no more
       than 16MB of RAM	can be used for	the operation:

	      recoverjpeg -b 1 -r 16m /dev/sdb1

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2004-2016 Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>.  This is free
       software; see the source	for copying conditions.	 There is NO warranty;
       not even	for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR	PURPOSE.

       If recoverjpeg saves your day and you liked it, you are welcome to send
       me the best rescued ones	by email (please send only 800x600 versions of
       the pictures) and authorize me to put them online (indicate which  con-
       tact information	you want me to use for credits).

SEE ALSO
       recovermov(1) sort-pictures(1) remove-duplicates(1)

KNOWN BUGS
       Recoverjpeg  does  not include a	complete jpeg parser.  You may need to
       use sort-pictures afterwards to identify	bogus pictures.	 Some pictures
       may be corrupted	but have a correct structure; in this case, the	 image
       may  be	garbled.   There  is no	automated way to detect	those pictures
       with a 100% success rate.

AUTHORS
       Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>.

Recoverjpeg User Manuals       November	12, 2016		RECOVERJPEG(1)

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