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WhatsApp Jpeg Image Repair

When you send jpeg files via WhatsApp and afterwards try to open received jpeg files in the Adobe Photoshop, you get the following error:

Could not complete your request because a SOFn, DQT, or DHT JPEG marker is missing before a JPEG SOS marker

In this cases users advised to open broken file in MS Paint (or something similar on MacOS) and save as jpeg file to solve this issue. But when you have many broken files, opening and saving every file is a kind of tedious work.

WhatsApp Jpeg Image Repair application solves this problem and can repair many broken files at once.

Follow these steps:

  1. Download application archive. Navigate to the application releases. Then expand Assets section and download either WhatsAppJpegRepair-2.0-Windows.zip or WhatsAppJpegRepair-2.0-MacOS.zip according to your operating system.
  2. Unzip application archive to an arbitrary folder. I recommend to use your home folder, for example Documents or Desktop folder, to prevent filesystem access control issues upon running the application.
  3. Open application folder WhatsAppJpegRepair.
  4. Place broken jpeg files from WhatsApp to the whatsapp-files directory, located in the application folder.
  5. Run the application.
  6. Go to the fixed-files folder to get fixed image files.

There are following option available:

-srcPath - contains path to the broken WhatsApp files By default the application internal folder whatsapp-files is being used. Currently this folder contains sample broken whatsapp jpeg images for demonstration purposes.

Example:

WhatsAppJpegRepair -srcPath=/home/Documents/Photos/WhatsAppFiles

this call will use /home/Documents/Photos/WhatsAppFiles folder as the source path to get broken whatsapp files.

-destPath - contains path to the folder, where fixed files will be stored. By default the application internal folder fixed-files is being used. If this folder does not exist, it will be created at runtime.

Example:

WhatsAppJpegRepair -srcPath=/home/Documents/Photos/WhatsAppFiles -destPath=/home/Documents/FixedPhotos

this call will use /home/Documents/Photos/WhatsAppFiles folder to look for broken whatsapp files, and will use /home/Documents/FixedPhotos folder to store fixed images.

-dontWaitToClose - if set to true, will close application just as it finished processing, otherwise it will wait until user presses 'Enter' key. By default its value is false.

Example:

WhatsAppJpegRepair -srcPath=/home/Documents/Photos/WhatsAppFiles -dontWaitToClose=true

this call will use folder /home/Documents/Photos/WhatsAppFiles as source file path, and application will be closes as it finished files processing. All fixed files will be stored to the default destination folder fixed-files (check -destPath option description above).

-useCurrentModificationDateTime - if it set to true, then created fixed files will get current date/time as file modification time. By default it is false, and all created fixed files get the same file modification date/time as source (broken) image files.

WhatsAppJpegRepair -useCurrentModificationDateTime=true

this call will use default source and destination folders (check -srcPath and -destPath options above), will wait until user presses Enter when the application completed the file processing, and will set current date/time as file modification time for created fixed files.

There are no mandatory options provided. You can run the application without parameters, and all default values for options will be used.

Building the application from the source

  1. Download and install Go language support: https://golang.org/
  2. In the application project folder run the following command:
go build WhatsAppJpegRepair.go