gistfile1.PL

#!/usr/bin/perl

########################################################################
# 
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; version 3 of the License.
# 
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# Copyright 2009 Gilberto "Velenux" Ficara <g.ficara@oltrelinux.com>
#
# This is very very *ugly* and slow, but it has recovered some files 
# that photorec didn't recover, for me.
#
# I used it in conjunction with dd_raw to recover photos from a
# defective compact flash
#
#####################################################################


use strict;
use warnings;

my $file = $ARGV[0] ;
(-r $file ) or die "Use: $0 <file>\n" ;

open STREAM, "<$file" or die "Can't open file <$file>, $!\n" ;
binmode STREAM;

my $buff;           # buffer
my $buff_len = 2;   # buffer len
my $seek = 0;       # seek address
my $start_addr = 0; # start address of file

my %addr;

# START PATTERN
# 49 49 2A 00 10 00 00 00 43 52 02 00
my $start_pattern = pack 'H*', '49492a001000000043520200';
my $start_pattern_2b = pack 'H*', '4949';

# END PATTERN
# FF D9
my $end_pattern = pack 'H*', 'FFD9';

while( read( STREAM, $buff, $buff_len ) ) {
  # debug
  #my $ubuff = unpack 'H*', $buff;
  #print "[ $ubuff ] Seek: $seek --> ";

  if((not $start_addr) and ($buff eq $start_pattern_2b)) {
    seek STREAM, -2, 1 ; # rewind 2 bytes
    read STREAM, $buff, 12 ; # read 12 bytes
    if($buff eq $start_pattern) {
      warn "Found file start at $seek!\n";
      $addr{$seek} = 0;
      $start_addr = $seek;
      $seek+=10;
    } else {
      seek STREAM, -10, 1; # rewind 10 bytes (12-2=10)
    }
  }

  if((defined $start_addr) and ($buff eq $end_pattern)) {
    warn "Found file end at $seek!\n";
    $addr{$start_addr} = $seek+2;
    undef $start_addr;
  }
  $seek += 2;
  print "$seek\n";
}

foreach my $a (sort keys %addr) {
  next if $addr{$a} == 0;
  my $fname = sprintf("%08d", $a) . '-' . sprintf("%08d", $addr{$a}) . '.cr2';
  my $image;

  seek STREAM, $a, 0;
  read STREAM, $image, ($addr{$a} - $a) ; # read full image

  open OUT, ">$fname";
  binmode OUT;
  print OUT $image;
  close OUT;
}

close STREAM;