File Juicer

File Juicer Publisher's Description:
A drag & drop can opener and data archaeologist. It's speciality is to find and extract images, video, audio or text from files which are hard to open in other ways.

It finds and extracts: JPEG, PNG, GIF, PDF, BMP, WMF, EMF, PICT, TIFF, Flash, Zip, HTML, WAV, AVI, MOV, MP4, MPG, MP3, AIFF, AU, WMV or text from files which contain data in those formats.

Lossless extraction.
File Juicer does't convert the images/sounds/videos it finds, but saves them unchanged in their original format when possible. Please see the manual for details about supported formats. It has a lot more information than there is room for here.

This is useful:

* if you have old files you can no longer open with current applications,
* if you receive emails with attachments you can not open,
* if you have corrupt files or databases,
* if you have damaged or acidentally erased flash cards for your digital camera,
* if you receive "self extracting" EXE files designed for Windows,
* or if this is just faster than copying and pasting from the file.

When you have extracted some files - for instance from a accidentally erased flash card, you can then check that they are intact with QuickTime Player or convert them with other applications. For images, checking validity is done by letting File Juicer generate icons for the files. Then the files with icons are the ones which are intact.

File Juicer has Automator support so you can save just the settings you need and use them directly from Finder.

What's new in this version:

Version 4.9.6

* Improved: File Juicer will now automatically unpack gz compressed files which are found in FireFox cache, and Apple Pages documents.
* Sanity check: File Juicer will not generate index html files if there is more than 20.000 images. To browse this amount of images, an application like iPhoto is better than Safari.
* Fix: Can generate the disk image needed for recovery needed for recovery of images Casio Exilim cameras. Advanced users can also make this disk image this with Disk Utility, but File Jucier makes it simpler.
* Fix: Extracted a non-JPEG from CR2 files.