GIMP and corrupted jpegs

[Laura Czajkowski]

Robert, sending this mail to Ubuntu mailing list as you may some answers
here also.

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--------- Original Message --------
From: Robert Kiely <robert.kiely at gmail.com>
To: ILUG <ilug at linux.ie>
Subject: [ILUG] [OT] GIMP and corrupted jpegs
Date: 25/09/08 12:22

> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry for the off topic post. I have a number of corrupted jpegs from
> a digital camera that I am trying to fix. The memory card was
> accidently formatted and the images were recovered by a photo shop but
> some of them were corrupted. By corrupted I mean grey areas and half
> of one picture being mixed with another picture etc. I fixed one
> picture by cutting and pasting the pieces together and messing with
> the colours and brightness etc. When I went to load the next picture I
> noticed that the thumbnail was fine but when the picture was loaded
> into GIMP I got an error message:
> 
> Corrupt JPEG data: premature end of data segment.
> 
> &gt;From what I gather the thumbnail is also stored in the file and must
> not be corrupted and hence the reason why it is shown fine in GIMP.
> Does anyone know of a way of fixing these pictures ? Copying and
> pasting bits together is somewhat time consuming and also some of the
> pictures that are missing bits have no corresponding bits in other
> photos so can't be fixed in this way. Google seems to only have turned
> up tools for fixing jpeg headers and none of them are free or open
> source.
> 
> I'm guessing that the reason the photos are &quot;mixed up&quot; is
because all
> the data segments from the photos are overlapping or are the wrong
> lengths. Would it be better to just get the original memory card and
> try to recover the images myself ?? Does anyone know of a tool to do
> this ?
> 
> Rgds,
> Rob
> 
> P.S. Obviously all this is being done on my Dell Latitude D410 running
> Xubuntu 8.04
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