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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 imageXXXXX.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 override 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  re-
     coverjpeg	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 aggregates 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 cur-
	    rent  directory).	When  used, 0 will be used for the 100 first im-
	    ages, 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  sys-
	    tems.

     -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  argu-
	    ment.

     -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  op-
	    tion  to restore files into a directory with enough space instead 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  multi-
	    ple  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  ig-
	    nored.

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

     -v     Be verbose and describes the process of jpeg identification.  By de-
	    fault, if this flag is not used, recoverjpeg will print  a	progress
	    bar  showing how much it has analyzed already and how many jpeg pic-
	    tures 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  system
     (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  contact  in-
     formation 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 gar-
     bled.   There is no automated way to detect those pictures with a 100% suc-
     cess rate.

AUTHORS
     Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>.

Recoverjpeg User Manuals	November 12, 2016		  RECOVERJPEG(1)

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