$ file sample.jpg sample.jpg: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, resolution (DPI), density 123x123, segment length 16, progressive, precision 8, 1024x1448, frames 3 $ perl -v This is perl 5, version 22, subversion 1 (v5.22.1) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level $ hexdump -C sample.jpg | head -30 00000000 ff d8 ff e0 00 10 4a 46 49 46 00 01 01 01 00 7b |......JFIF.....{| 00000010 00 7b 00 00 ff db 00 43 00 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 |.{.....C........| 00000020 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 |................|* 00000090 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 >>>> ff c2 <<<< |................| 000000a0 00 11 08 >>> 05 a8 04 00 <<<< 03 01 22 00 02 11 01 03 11 |........."......| 000000b0 01 ff c4 00 1e 00 01 00 01 04 03 01 01 00 00 00 |................| 000000c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 05 07 08 09 03 04 0a 02 |................|