How to Solve the Damaged JPEG Image Document Error on Windows/Mac

Images are very sophisticated whether it is JPEG image or any file type, the portion of image would get changed even if one pixel of the image get damaged or corrupted. The image would not open if the header part of your image gets damaged. There can be many reasons for JPEG images to become corrupt; this may be due to improper system shutdown or virus attack etc. In order to repair the jpeg file, you have to repair it by using JPEG File Repair tool then you can access the image properly.

Error Messages:

When the image gets corrupt you may get some error messages. For different image viewer would get different error message, which is follows:

1. Windows Picture & Fax Viewer will show “Drawing Failed” message.
2. Adobe Photoshop “Could not complete your request because an unknown or invalid JPEG marker type is found”.
3. In IrfanView “Can’t read file header! Unknown file format or file not found!”.
4. In Windows Explorer “No Preview Available”.
5. Adobe Photoshop will show “This document may be damaged (the file may be truncated or incomplete)” message.  

Solution to fix jpeg error:

Generally the code pattern in JPEG images is in hexadecimal codes. You can open the corrupt or damaged images in Winhex, provided you have a good knowledge of hexadecimal codes.

1. Download winhex tool.
2. From file menu open your corrupt file in winhex.
3. Search the corrupt pattern
4. Replace maged pattern with correct one.
5. You can save corrected image from file menu. 

Moreover this process is lengthy and complete knowledge of JPEG file pattern has to be known. There is no need to worry, if you do not have complete knowledge of JPEG file. You can repair your corrupt JPEG files easily and quickly with the help of JPEG File Repair Tool for Mac/Windows. This software would scan your corrupt images to find the damaged part of image and then it would replace it with the correct code.

Reasons behind corruption or damaging of JPEG files:

Here is the list of causes why the file gets damaged or corrupted.

1. Format of the memory card or disk which contains the batch of JPG files results to loss of the files.
2. If large amount of data is stored in drives then the system shows that it is empty then it is hard to access the JPEG files that are stored in it.
3. Corruption of storage media may make JPEG files inaccessibility and many more. 

Features of this software:

This software would scan and improve the performance of the repaired file. The software scans multiple JPEG files conveniently in a batch and gives the desired result in quick time. It can easily help you to extract and repair the images of the JPEG files embedded thumbnail without losing the quality of image. The file contains multiple thumbnails and the tool extracts all of them and in a sequential manner. Above all this tool is very user friendly and can be used easily.

How to use this software:

Step 1. The main interface of JPEG File Repair Tool provides “Extract Thumbnail” and “Repair JPEG” choices. To extract only the thumbnails of the JPEG files use “Extract Thumbnail” option whereas to repair your JPEG files use “Repair JPEG”. In order to proceed, click on the appropriate button.

Step 2. Then you have to add the files which are to be repaired by clicking on the “Add File” button, you can also add multiple files. From the left panel select the file and click on “Remove from the list” to remove the files from the “list of JPEG files” which images are perfect and in order to repair all the files click on the button “Select All” this would allow you to select all the added JPEG files and by selecting “Unselect All” would un-select all the listed files. Then to initialize the repairing process, click on the “Repair File”.

Step 3. After scanning and repairing the corrupted or lost JPEG files. Then on the left pane it would display all the repaired files. You can see the list of JPEG images in thumbnails, if you have selected the “repair JPEG files”. In order to see the preview in the main interface window you have to select the file from the left pane. After seeing the preview you can click on the “Save” button to save the files on the system.

Step 4. On choosing the “Extract the thumbnails” option from the main interface, you can add the JPEG files by selecting the “Add File” button. Now you can extract the desired files from the thumbnails of the JPEG files.

Step 5. In order to extract the thumbnails of the JPEG images then this software would only display the thumbnail image in order to preview the file. Then click “Save” button to save the thumbnail images of JPEG files to your desired location.

Step 6. After saving the repaired file, it would display a pop-up message as shown above. You can go to the container folder by clicking on it.

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