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On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 06:46, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> A .doc file contains an image. Is there any way to extract the image file in |
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> its original format, please? |
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> This may seem like a bit of an odd request, so I'll explain. The .doc file |
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> is quite large, and it seems like the image it contains must be to blame. I |
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> would like to extract the original file of the image and examine it. I have |
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> tried in OpenOffice on Windows and Word for Mac. In OpenOffice I can't see |
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> any way to save the image file, in Word for Mac I can drag the file to the |
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> desktop but it becomes a "Picture clipping.pictClipping" and is clearly not |
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> the original format. |
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> I tried running `photorec` on the .doc file, but that just "finds" the .doc |
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> file itself. I thought to use dd to zero over the first few bytes of the |
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> .doc - maybe this would make the .doc unrecognisable to photorec, and then |
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> photorec would maybe find the image file inside the corrupt document, but I |
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> haven't tried that yet. I'm not sure if it'd work, and so I thought I'd ask |
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> here to see if anyone knew of an easy way to do this first. |
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> TIA for any suggestions, |
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When I want to extract an image from a doc I save it as HTML. It saves |
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images in a separated folder and links it into the HTML. I simply go |
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to the folder and check the image. |
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Hope it helps. |
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Daniel da Veiga |
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