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

[Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 06:46, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> 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,
>

When I want to extract an image from a doc I save it as HTML. It saves
images in a separated folder and links it into the HTML. I simply go
to the folder and check the image.

Hope it helps.

-- 
Daniel da Veiga