can you be certain that all occurances of these 2 bytes represent start/end image markers

I think that's a good point. I have a jpeg image that certainly begins with the "start marker" that the op quoted ... and it certainly ends with the "end marker" that the op quoted. Unfortunately, I can also find an occurrence of both the "start marker" and the "end marker" within that jpeg file.

That complicates things somewhat.

Is it guaranteed that there's only one image in the stream ? Is it also guaranteed that the image begins with the first/last occurrence of the "start marker" and ends with the last/first occurrence of the "end marker" ? If the answer to both questions is yes then the problem is easily solved - as we can easily remove the cruft from both ends of the stream, leaving us with the image.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^2: extract jpg from binary file by syphilis
in thread extract jpg from binary file by wertert

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