# Repair damaged JPEG? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [June 2, 2010, 7:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/repair-damaged-jpeg/155916 "2010-06-02T07:52:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 7:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/repair-damaged-jpeg/155916/1 "2010-06-02T07:52:59Z")
Anyone have a piece of software they’ve had good luck repairing damaged JPEG’s with? One of the girls at work came to me with her vacation pics she just pulled off her camera and a bunch of them are bad. Example: ![http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd75/jsears77/SDC11923.jpg](http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd75/jsears77/SDC11923.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![newman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newman/32/7569_2.png) [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 7:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/repair-damaged-jpeg/155916/2 "2010-06-02T07:55:09Z")
lol that guy in the glasses could be me. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 8:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/repair-damaged-jpeg/155916/3 "2010-06-02T08:02:26Z")
JPEG Recovery Pro = fail. [http://www.hketech.com/JPEG-recovery/](http://www.hketech.com/JPEG-recovery/) PixRecovery = fail. [http://www.officerecovery.com/pixrecovery/index.htm](http://www.officerecovery.com/pixrecovery/index.htm) Both said they recovered the file but all they did was add their demo watermark to the broken image. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 8:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/repair-damaged-jpeg/155916/4 "2010-06-02T08:06:25Z")
I think she’s SOL unless she can stich together multiple broken images like a puzzle. … and from that pic, it looks like a vacation she might want to forget, lol. ---
**Author:** ![pirite](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pirite/32/5308_2.png) [@pirite](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/pirite)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 8:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/repair-damaged-jpeg/155916/5 "2010-06-02T08:07:48Z")
[http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1818839/37240560/](http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1818839/37240560/) [http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1780185/20689200/](http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1780185/20689200/) if you need an invite PM me. ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 9:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/repair-damaged-jpeg/155916/6 "2010-06-02T09:17:07Z")
Boom Fixed ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/Thorguitarist/dc73937e.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/Thorguitarist/dc73937e.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 10:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/repair-damaged-jpeg/155916/7 "2010-06-02T10:25:41Z")
Yeah, so far the recovery apps I’ve tried (including the ones pirite posted) haven’t done shit. ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 10:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/repair-damaged-jpeg/155916/8 "2010-06-02T10:28:28Z")
photoshop ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/repair-damaged-jpeg/155916/9 "2010-06-04T04:21:51Z")
> [@ProgRocker](#): > > photoshop CS5 did nothing but, “hey, your photo looks like it’s broken, do you want to try opening it anyway?”. At which point it opened with just the top part that isn’t messed up. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![drvnkd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/drvnkd/32/109615_2.png) [@drvnkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/drvnkd)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 5:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/repair-damaged-jpeg/155916/10 "2010-06-04T05:16:04Z")
So, Are you doing this just to see if you can, or to see if there are _interesting_ photos? ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 5:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/repair-damaged-jpeg/155916/11 "2010-06-04T05:26:17Z")
[quote=“drvnkd,post:10,topic:155916"”] So, Are you doing this just to see if you can, or to see if there are _interesting_ photos? [/quote] Just trying to help out a coworker. And figure learning if this is possible could be helpful to me as well if it ever happens to some of my pictures. ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 5:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/repair-damaged-jpeg/155916/12 "2010-06-04T05:42:36Z")
I fixed it in photoshop :shrug: ---
**Author:** ![TrueBlue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/trueblue/32/7245_2.png) [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 5:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/repair-damaged-jpeg/155916/13 "2010-06-04T05:53:40Z")
They’re FUBAR’d. The only way to reconstitute the data correctly is manually. Did her camera go through the X-ray scanner, or by a powerful electromagnet? ---
**Author:** ![mike125k](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mike125k/32/7282_2.png) [@mike125k](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mike125k)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 5:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/repair-damaged-jpeg/155916/14 "2010-06-04T05:59:57Z")
> [@TrueBlue](#): > > Did her camera go through the X-ray scanner. Airport x-ray scanners won’t hurt it. My DSLR’s and P&S’s have gone through countless times with no issues. ---
**Author:** ![TrueBlue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/trueblue/32/7245_2.png) [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 7:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/repair-damaged-jpeg/155916/15 "2010-06-04T07:22:53Z")
Depends on the camera and the scanner, the machines use electromagnets to produce x-rays. I’ve seen both damaged film and digital information from scanners - just not neccesarily in the US. - Correction, it was from the CT scanners that we had damage.