![]() ![]() To be fair, the IrfanView site makes no claim about it being able to read corrupt JPEGs, anyway, so this shouldn't be taken as a criticism of the program. This sounded interesting, so we downloaded and installed a copy of the latest version, pointed it at our test images - and were slightly disappointed by the results, when it proved unable to read any of them.Įven the pictures with the simplest forms of corruption - the wiped signature - returned nothing but error messages. ![]() "Try IrfanView", we kept reading, "it can often read images that other programs won't touch". IrfanView is a tiny but amazingly powerful image editor, packed with a host of powerful features, so it was no great surprise when we found people often recommending it online in discussions about corrupted JPEGs. The core recovery engine needs work, though, and you may find it's unable to fix your damaged photos. If you're frustrated by the massive watermarks used by other recovery tools, give it a try. JPEG Recovery Pro is a likeable, well-designed program, then. Sometimes it did reasonably well - JPEG Recovery Pro was able to access half the pictures in our toughest Test 3, for instance (where the first 8KB of our test images were lost) - but others weren't so successful, with the program occasionally failing even on our relatively easy 'zero signature' test. ![]() If there's a down side here it's that the program's recovery technology isn't as effective as some of the competition. ![]() Point the program at your folder of corrupted photos and there's no tedious progress bars, no tables of figures: it just recovers all the images it can, and displays a thumbnail of each picture so you can judge the results right away.īetter still, there's no massive watermark placed over the top, so you can't actually tell if the image has been fixed at all - these are just regular thumbnails.Īnd although they're a little small, double-click any of them and you're able to view a larger version. If we were marking our software on ease of use alone, then JPEG Recovery Pro would be an easy winner. And perhaps they can.ĭon't waste your valuable time expecting File Repair to fix your corrupted JPEGs, though - from our tests, it's entirely useless. The File Repair authors do claim on their website that they can repair files manually (for a fee, we'd guess). And it told us "No data to recover detected" there, too. So after failing in every case, we pointed File Repair at some uncorrupted images, just as a check. And in each and every case the program told us it was "Rading the damaged file", displayed a progress bar by way of proof, before stating "No data to recover detected". We pointed it at every one of our test pictures - individually, as it can't batch process files. With regards to JPEGS, at least, File Repair simply doesn't work. If you don't want to spend big money repairing your image files then the freeware File Repair should have obvious appeal, especially as it also claims to repair Office documents, archives, videos, PDF files and MP3 files.īut while this sounds great, the program does suffer from a fairly significant problem. But a relatively unobtrusive text watermark means it's quite easy to see how well the program's recovery efforts have worked.Īnd perhaps best of all, Stellar Phoenix JPEG Repair can be yours for a very reasonable $39 - that could be money well spent. The program was able to make 2 out of 14 images look good, even after we zeroed 8KB in the middle of each file, and even deleting the first 8KB from each file couldn't prevent it from restoring half of our images. The 'corrupt header' set was more difficult, but Stellar Phoenix still restored 12 out of 14. Our zeroed signature images were recovered immediately, for instance. The program's repair tools were mostly very successful, too. Add a few files, click the 'Repair' button, and wait a while for the results to appear - it's all very straightforward. Of course the program can also try to repair your JPEGs, though, and here it works more or less exactly as you'd expect. ![]()
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