RECOVERY FORENSIC ANALYSIS

Metadata Recovery

Recover EXIF, XMP, IPTC, and ICC metadata from JPEG and TIFF-based files — every field, with raw bytes and offsets.

File

Original file is never modified · 100% local — nothing is uploaded

Common error messages this diagnoses

If you're here because something threw one of these, this tool shows you exactly what's wrong and how much is recoverable:

  • "No EXIF data found" — sometimes the block is present but damaged rather than truly absent — this tool checks for both.
  • "Unable to read metadata" — generic app failure this tool replaces with real field-by-field recovery.
  • "corrupt EXIF data" — this tool recovers whatever fields survive, field by field.

What this tool doesn't do (yet)

No audio (ID3/Vorbis/APE), video (MP4/MOV/Matroska), document (PDF/Office), executable, filesystem, font, 3D/CAD, or game metadata yet — those need real parsers this tool doesn't have. MakerNote data (Canon/Nikon/Sony/etc.) is shown as present with a byte count but not parsed — it's manufacturer-specific and undocumented. Non-TIFF RAW containers (CR3, RAF, RW2, X3F) aren't supported — only JPEG and TIFF-based files (including many RAW formats that share TIFF's structure) get a full parse; anything else only gets a raw marker-string scan. Nothing is ever inferred or reconstructed — a field is either read from real bytes or not shown at all, never guessed. There's no metadata diff between two files, no batch mode, and no selective/strip export here — for removing metadata before sharing, use Image Salvage's existing "Download without metadata."