// artifact family
file repair & rescue
19 browser-only forensics tools in this catalog group — browse by artifact family when you know the kind of evidence you are working with, not the investigation pattern.
tools in this family
ordered as in the forensics catalog. every tool runs locally — no upload, no account.
- zip rescuerecover files from a corrupt ZIP · scans raw bytes for local file headers · bypasses damaged central directory · download what survives · runs locally
- jpeg rescuerecover pixels from a corrupt or truncated JPEG · partial render · extract embedded EXIF thumbnail · runs locally
- png rescuerepair corrupt PNG · validate and rewrite chunk CRCs · recover IDAT data · download fixed file · runs locally
- pdf rescuerecover pages from a corrupt PDF · cross-reference repair · object stream scan · extract whatever survives · runs locally
- video rescuerecover a corrupt MP4 or MOV · scan for moov · mdat · ftyp atoms · reconstruct a playable file · runs locally
- office rescueextract text and data from corrupt docx · xlsx · pptx · ZIP-based format recovery · raw XML extraction · runs locally
- sqlite rescuerecover rows from a corrupt SQLite database · page-level scan · export surviving tables to CSV · runs locally
- tiff / camera raw rescuerecover corrupt TIFF · CR2 · NEF · ARW · DNG · validate IFD chains · extract embedded JPEG preview · strip bad tags · download fixed file · runs locally
- mp3 rescuescan binary for valid MPEG audio frames · skip corrupt sections · detect ID3 tags · reconstruct playable MP3 · runs locally
- gif rescuerepair corrupt GIF · validate header · image descriptor blocks · frame table · reconstruct what plays · download fixed file · runs locally
- heic / heif readerdrop an iPhone HEIC or HEIF file · parse ISO BMFF container · extract full-size JPEG · thumbnail · EXIF metadata · runs locally
- exif fixerdrop JPEGs with broken or missing EXIF · repair corrupt tags · rebuild missing timestamp from filename · batch redate · download fixed files · runs locally
- json repairpaste malformed JSON · auto-fix trailing commas · unclosed brackets · bad escapes · unquoted keys · pretty-print · runs locally
- csv repairdrop a malformed CSV · detect encoding · delimiter · misaligned columns · fix and preview · export clean file · runs locally
- csv file provenance and origin fingerprinterdrop csv files · identify which software generated them · excel vs python csv module vs mysql export vs postgres copy vs pandas vs r · detect generator from quoting style · line ending · bom · encoding · column header conventions · runs locally
- json and xml data structure provenance tracerdrop json or xml files · analyze internal structure · namespace usage · key ordering · formatting conventions · whitespace patterns · identify what tool or framework generated the data · detect structural anomalies indicating manual editing · runs locally
- mojibake / encoding fixerpaste garbled text · detect source encoding · auto-convert Mojibake · latin-1 · windows-1252 · utf-8 · shift-jis · runs locally
- partial download artifact recoverydrop browser partial download files .crdownload .part .tmp · reconstruct what was being downloaded · extract file type · recover partial content · identify source url from metadata · assess recovery potential · runs locally
- browser session recovery from unallocated spacedrop a disk image or raw binary · scan unallocated space for browser session remnants · sqlite page fragments · leveldb entries · partial history records · recover browsing sessions that were deleted · runs locally