Image Recovery Software

A software written in C that allows users to recover PNGs, JPEGS, and GIFs from their deleted drives, or any provided hexdumps

Build

Prerequisites

You need to have the following installed

• GNU Make
• MinGW C Compiler
• git

Steps

Clones the repository

git clone https://github.com/ShaderOX/image-recovery-software.git && cd image-recovery-software

Compiles the source code

make -C src/

Runs the executable

./dist/recover.exe --help

and it gives the following output
Usage: ./recover.exe --filename <filename, usb.dmp> | --drive <drive, C:> --buffer <buffer_size, >=512> (optional)

Working

The application is able to recover deleted files by tracking their headers and trailers. All files have certain types of headers and trailers (in hex) that is unique to their type and by reading between those headers and trailers, the file can be recovered. This is true not only for images but is the basis for all the recovery softwares.

Licence

LICENSE - MIT