Foremost

Foremost is a program that recovers files based on their headers , footers and internal data structures. It can be useful when dealing with png images. It can be installed with apt however the source can be found on github. Useful commands: foremost -i file : extracts data from the given file.

Usage

1. Help

   foremost -h

2. Extract files of type 'gif and pdf' from the file 'img.jpg'

   foremost -t gif,pdf -i img.jpg