[dhosek]

I bumped into this recently with a couple Kodak PhotoCDs I uncovered last month. Trying to get the pictures out of the PCD files is turning out to be more challenging than I expected.

[js2]

I converted mine years ago using iPhoto but according to Wikipedia, there are several programs that can do the conversion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_CD#Converting_Photo_CD_i...

[dhosek]

iPhoto no longer exists and the replacement, Photos doesn't support it. A free command-line tool I found doesn't run any without signing and I need to find the dependent library for JPEG handling to use it. Other apps are paid.

[dhosek]

And an online service that claims to do it only extracts the lowest resolution scan from the file.

[mro_name]

what was the issue - hardware access (a CD reader), bit rot or else?

The image format was jpeg if I remember correctly, wasn't it?

[mark-r]

I don't think it was JPEG, it was a custom format that contained multiple resolutions.

[dhosek]

It's a custom undocumented format with a lot of oddities to it (particularly in its color profile handling, or more precisely lack thereof).

[deltarholamda]

Is ImageMagick not doing the job? It's been a while, but Photoshop used to be pretty adept at this as well.

[dhosek]

I haven't checked ImageMagick to see if it supports PCD, I'll have to see if I can do it in my wife's PhotoShop license.

[dhosek]

And ImageMagick will only do the lowest resolution images from the files.