JpegDigger
The facts below are what the maker publishes about JpegDigger, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From JpegDigger's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| JpegDigger (included with JPEG-Repair Toolkit) | — | JpegDigger is included with JPEG-Repair Toolkit; the shop lists a price range but does not give a separate JpegDigger price · Not stated |
The facts
Each one read from JpegDigger's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Bad sectors
- The FAQ says JpegDigger cannot scan media with bad sectors and suggests creating a RAW image of the memory card and scanning its mounted drive letter.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Drive image limitation
- Drive images must be sector by sector, dd-type image files.checked 12 Oct 2026
- File preview
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- File systems
- It supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT and NTFS for parameter detection, and can scan corrupt drives or unsupported file systems using automatic parameter scanning.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Formats
- It accepts JPEG and several RAW formats, including NEF, CR2, ORF, RW2, ARW and DNG, and outputs JPEG.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Input and output
- It scans logical drives, physical drives, or disk images, recognizes JPEGs and listed RAW formats, and outputs JPEG files.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Input sources
- It can scan logical drives, physical drives, and sector by sector raw drive images.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License availability
- The DiskTuna shop lists the JPEG-Repair Toolkit at €29.00 – €49.00 and says it includes JpegDigger and JPEG-Repair.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Manual reconstruction
- Users can manually add or remove individual clusters to reconstruct fragmented JPEGs.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Memory card recovery
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Notable limitation
- As a carver, JpegDigger generally cannot reconstruct directory trees or original filenames, and it only supports file types it recognizes.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Operating systems
- Windowschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Original names
- As a file carver, it does not recover directory structures or original file names in many cases.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- JpegDigger is a lightweight tool for recovering deleted or lost photos, designed with memory cards in mind and also usable on hard drives.checked 12 Oct 2026
- RAW limitation
- It does not recover original RAW files; it can recover embedded JPEGs from listed RAW formats.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Recovery limitation
- The maker says JpegDigger focuses on JPEG recovery and can recover embedded JPEGs from RAW files rather than recovering the original RAW files.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Recovery method
- It scans media for JPEG data and parses JPEG structures instead of relying on file system directory records.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Recovery sources
- logical drives; physical drives; disk images; memory cards; hard driveschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Repair and fragmentation
- It can attempt on-the-fly repair of corrupted JPEGs and simple gap carving of fragmented photos.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Repair and fragments
- It can attempt on-the-fly JPEG repair and simple gap carving to recover fragmented photos.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Scanning features
- Features include non-block-aligned deep scanning, duplicate filtering, manual cluster reconstruction, and RAW disk image support.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Free version
- The free version includes all features but saves scaled-down BMP photos generated from full-size JPEGs.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Maker
- The maker identifies himself as Joep van Steen, says he lives in the Netherlands, and reports over 20 years of experience developing data recovery and disk utilities.checked 12 Oct 2026
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