# After Using PhotoRec

### From CGSecurity

It may be hard to sort the file recovered by PhotoRec. You can find here some ideas to help you in this process.

- JPEG file sorting using EXIF meta-data.
- Under Linux, md5sum can used to find duplicate file, maybe just md5'ing only the first x bytes
- Under Linux (or with perl and 'sum'), you can find duplicates in a hierarchy using find_dup
- Under Linux, for file extensions that ImageMagick can handle, you can run something like

    for file in recup_dir*/*; do convert $file $file; done

- Under Linux (or with perl and 'convert'), you can automate the above 'for' loop and do many other batch image processing with fix_img

- To read broken Office document (doc/xls/ppt/...) that MS Office failed to read, you can try OpenOffice. OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform

and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.

- To recover broken Outlook PST file, try Microsoft Scanpst

##### Data Recovery

- TestDisk
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