File Juicer to the rescue

March 27, 2009  FILED TO: Software

I had a client come to me recently wanting a redesign of an existing website.  This website included a set of photo galleries.  These photo galleries had been made using a Flash template and didn’t really fit in with the new design.  She also wanted to add more galleries.   Unfortunately, the original Flash files were lost in history and so were the electronic versions of these photos so I could neither extract the photos nor create new galleries like them.  I searched for many alternatives but could see only two that were available: use the existing Flash files and add new photos in a different format (a bit ugly), or rescan all of the original photos and create new galleries (time consuming as there are lots of photos).  Fortunately, I happened across a site today which solved all of the problems: it lead me to File Juicer.

File Juicer will search just about any file format and extract whatever images (and text in some cases) it can find.  It cost me around $AUD26 and within 5 minutes I had extracted all of the photos from 6 Flash photo galleries.  That was well worth the money, I think.  With a list of capabilities as long as my arm, I won’t insert them here; I’ll just say if you ever need to extract something from something – try File Juicer.