Hi all,
A .doc file contains an image. Is there any way to extract the image
file in its original format, please?
This may seem like a bit of an odd request, so I'll explain. The .doc
file is quite large, and it seems like the image it contains must be
to blame. I would like to extract the original file of the image and
examine it. I have tried in OpenOffice on Windows and Word for Mac. In
OpenOffice I can't see any way to save the image file, in Word for Mac
I can drag the file to the desktop but it becomes a "Picture
clipping.pictClipping" and is clearly not the original format.
I tried running `photorec` on the .doc file, but that just "finds"
the .doc file itself. I thought to use dd to zero over the first few
bytes of the .doc - maybe this would make the .doc unrecognisable to
photorec, and then photorec would maybe find the image file inside the
corrupt document, but I haven't tried that yet. I'm not sure if it'd
work, and so I thought I'd ask here to see if anyone knew of an easy
way to do this first.
TIA for any suggestions,
Stroller.
