Panasonic Calls It .PBE?

TrumpetX asks: "A friend of mine and I have been asked by our boss to do an image extraction from a KV-F510 Panasonic scanning station. The extraction program (which works in a 16 bit environment only) works fine, but it spits out .PBE file formats with some unreadable .INF files. I was wondering if any of the /. readers out there have used one of these dinasour scanning stations before, and if someone could shed some light on how to convert the .PBE files to another format (TIF, GIF, BMP, or anything else readable, really)."

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What does file say?

[Spoing]

When confronted with an unusual file, I usually use file to check what it _might_ be;

1. file image.pbe

Not a direct answer, but if you haven't tried it yet you might be lucky and find out the format isn't propriatory.

Additionally, if you know a specific image is simple, take a look at it in a hex editor and look for patterns. It's possible that the file is some form of PCX or TIFF image (many document processing systems use this), with an extended header. Chop off the old header, put on a standard one, and see if it can be viewed at all. You could be lucky!

Remember, dd is your friend. :)