Extracting images from binary file

[Jeff Nelson]

Hi,

I have access to a binary file that contains 1 or more images. I am
trying to access the images in java so that I can extract them and
place them in a directory. I know the file is in little-endian format
and I used com.mindprod.ledatastream.LEDataInputStream to read it. I
the first line is ascii and tells me the length of the blob. My issue is I do not know how to navigate throught the file to extract each image. I know i have issues that will have me use sime Image api later on, but if I can not isolate the images into logical chunks I will not get anywhere.

Any suggestions, code snippets?

[Ulf Dittmer]

Hello Jeff-

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[Ulf Dittmer]

As to your question, what file format is this? It's hard to make sense of a blob if one doesn't know which of the myriads of image formats it's in.

[Jeff Nelson]

The file(s) in the binary create a jpg. The binary file was create in C and the author states that all he has to do is output the contents of each image as a file name with a .jpg extension.

[Ulf Dittmer]

That's a strange way of bundling images. Sounds like you need to figure out yourself where one image ends and the next one starts, extract the bytes for each one, and then save them separately.

The JPEG file format has length fields embedded which you can use for this purpose, but it's going to require some programming (not really bad, though).