Re: [gentoo-user] OT: extract an image from a .doc file?

[Renat Golubchyk <ragermany@gmx.net>]

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On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:43:23 +0000
Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:> 
> On 14 Dec 2009, at 13:01, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
> >> ...
> >> The file which is responsible for the size of the .doc is
> >> immediately obvious when I rename this document.odt to
> >> document.zip.
> >>
> >> It is a 2meg file, but unfortunately, as Mick appears to have
> >> predicted, it is called simply "Object 1" with no file extension.
> >>
> >> Running `file` on it shows it to be a "Microsoft Office Document",
> >> but it's apparently not the kind you can open in Word.
> >
> > Have you tried opening this "Object 1" file in OpenOffice and repeat
> > the steps above again?
> 
> I don't seem to be able to open this file in Open Office. It doesn't  
> recognise the format, and gives me a list of about 100 file types to  
> try. Choosing (I think) Microsoft Word document doesn't work, and I  
> can't see anything else in the list that looks more promising.
> 
> I tried running photorec on "Object 1" and it produces a  
> recovered .doc file, but that doesn't open, either.

Try checking it with ImageMagick's "identify".


Cheers,
Renat

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