Like most text editing applications can search a text file for a word, Juicer can search inside any file format for images of the types: JPEG, PNG, GIF, PDF, BMP and SWF.

File Juicer is a tool that extracts images from files of any kind, if they are stored inside in their original format.

PDF files contain images, which can be extracted, as PDF and JPEG.

You can search single files or in folders of files at once. When Juicer finds images of a kind it recognizes, it extracts and stores them in a new folder on the Desktop.

This is useful for image recovery, or for reading images stored in file formats created by applications you don't have. Apples iPhoto stores photo albums as aliases to the original photos in its library. Juicer can extract albums from damaged libraries.

File Juicer 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.

Here are some key features of "File Juicer":

· Extract images from a PowerPoint slide show.
· Extract images from PDF files.
· Recover images and video from erased flash cards
· Recover text from damaged files
· Extract the images and html files in Safari's cache.
· Extract attachments from email archives.
· Extract Flash animations saved in .EXE files.
· Convert zip files which have been saved as .exe files to zip.
· Extract the JPEG pictures from Canon's RAW files.

Limitations:

· 15 days trial period.
· File Juicer can not recognize images which are packed in other formats than the ones supported. Examples are QuickTime movies, which can contain images compressed with the JPEG algorithm, but stored differently.
· Another example is Adobe InDesign, which chops up the images in small blocks, and they get unrecognizable.
· Juicing encrypted PDF's will result in images appearing white. Some PDF's are encrypted to prevent copy, and print operations, but they will otherwise view fine. File Juicer has not yet support for decryption.
· File Juicer is not strict in checking that the found files are valid. For instance, it can mistake EXIF data as a TIFF file, because it is formatted as a TIFF file. If the images get a Finder icon, they are valid enough to be drawn by Mac OS.
· Validating EPS files is very loose, and Preview will tell you if the file is valid.
· When extracting files from disk images, fragmented files are not recovered. Therefore recovering files from erased disks is most successful if there has not been too much erasing and rewriting activity going on, as new files may overwrite erased ones. Disk images made from flash cards are usually not fragmented, and have good recovery chances.
· The email feature has only been tested with Apple Mail.
· Flash animations often play in QuickTime Player, but sometimes you need to open them in your web browser from the File menu, and sometimes they play only from the website they belong to. This depends on the design of the animation.
· The ASCII extraction will also extract text which looks meaningless. This can be image data which by coincidence only contains the same bytes common in text.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added: support for recovering photos from the iPod Nano 4th and 5th generation
· Fixed: a bug with extracting some images from PPS files