TheBachelor 5 #1 February 15, 2008 Wanna make $100? I’ll send you a check for $100 if you’re the first to answer this question about the file I have uploaded: What is the image format, and what do I have to do to get the image in a “standard” image format? By “standard”, I mean .jpg, .bmp, .tiff, etc. Hints: The file contains a scanned or faxed image, which is stored on Unix, and can be viewed by a Windows client for an application called “Resumix.” I have FTP’d the file in both binary and ASCII. Looking at the file in hex, it looks like it may be a hybrid format. The directory that the files are in is protected. The user id is “Geek”, and the password is the initials (in upper case) of the U.S. governing body for our sport. I won’t make it a “clicky” because I don’t want the ‘bots picking it up. I also won’t attach them here because I want to get rid of them when it’s figured out. The URL’s are: www dot dauplaise dot net/secure/565065.bin for the binary file www dot dauplaise dot net/secure/565065.asc.bin for the ASCII file Just going to that URL should allow you to save the files. I have tested with both IE and FireFox. If you still have a problem, PM me, and I will email you the files. IMPORTANT: Please PM me if you figure it out. I will post a follow-up message when someone has. If I have multiple correct answers, the first one wins. If you have questions, you can post them here or PM me. Please answer the question I the spirit it was asked. Don’t send me answers like “Just open it in Resumix and save it in another format.” I have thousands of these files, and I need to be able to view them from Windows after I get rid of Resumix. All decisions of the judge (me) are final.There are battered women? I've been eating 'em plain all of these years... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #2 February 16, 2008 MimeI'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheBachelor 5 #3 February 16, 2008 QuoteMime Hmmm. Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't look like a MIME formatted file. If you can provide more detail to your answer, please PM me.There are battered women? I've been eating 'em plain all of these years... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jsaxton 0 #4 February 16, 2008 QuoteQuoteMime Hmmm. Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't look like a MIME formatted file. If you can provide more detail to your answer, please PM me. I haven't looked at the file (yet) but he means MIME Encoded http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME You could use sometthing like this http://drn.digitalriver.com/product.download.php?id=26&url=asmake10.zip&itn=1&SiteID=driverguide and probably decode it yourself (If it is MIME Encoded, that is) If that dosen't work, PM me and I'll convert it for free. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Conundrum 1 #5 February 16, 2008 How big is the image. You could always print screen and paste into an editing program (i.e. photoshop). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #6 February 16, 2008 Its not a mime type file unless I'm missing it too, I looked at it a few ways and you are probaly looking at a specific file type and would need to write a convertor based on the standards that the Resumix file type specifies. Looking up Resumix I assume you are looking at scanned and tagged resumes and want to look at them after you remove Resumix from your company. I've been out of the game too long to even try to write a decrypt tool to break the files down into a format that could be moved into an image (I'd go PDF since its an OCR's resume, it makes it searchable in the future). Contact Resumix and see if they have a Software Developer Kit, inside that application framework you should be able to write a tool to allow the export and saving of the files. Might cost more then the $100 though...Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheBachelor 5 #7 February 16, 2008 QuoteContact Resumix and see if they have a Software Developer Kit, inside that application framework you should be able to write a tool to allow the export and saving of the files. Might cost more then the $100 though... Resumix was bought by Yahoo!, and they discontinued the product.There are battered women? I've been eating 'em plain all of these years... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheBachelor 5 #8 February 16, 2008 QuoteHow big is the image. You could always print screen and paste into an editing program (i.e. photoshop). I have about 20,000 of these images. Can't do them one by one.There are battered women? I've been eating 'em plain all of these years... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shell666 0 #9 February 16, 2008 Quote Quote How big is the image. You could always print screen and paste into an editing program (i.e. photoshop). I have about 20,000 of these images. Can't do them one by one. You might want to up the $100 "reward" then ... 'Shell Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheBachelor 5 #10 February 16, 2008 O.K. For those of you who answer without looking at the file, following is a hex dump of the top of the file. The left most numbers are the offset from the begging of the file (in decimal). Then there are 16 hexadecimal codes, then the display of that line. Here it is. You'll have to copy and paste it to something with a fixed-space font (like notepad) for it to line up right. 00000000 32 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 31 30 32 34 30 2000000000010240 00000016 31 33 32 30 30 30 30 30 38 30 0a 32 30 34 38 ff 1320000080.2048ÿ 00000032 ff ff f9 6a 25 a9 6a 15 44 7c e3 08 2c 8e 8f 8a ÿÿùj%©j.D|ã.,ŽŠ 00000048 6d 17 cb ac 58 23 ba 42 c8 f2 84 14 45 91 d1 e4 m.ˬX#ºBÈò„.E‘Ñä 00000064 47 47 41 90 88 c2 2e b5 4f 04 0b cb 70 81 0d 94 GGAˆÂ.µO..Ëp.” 00000080 e3 23 a4 32 3a 47 1e 47 cd a2 3e 66 69 d9 74 4e ã#¤2:G.GÍ¢>fiÙtN 00000096 8b ac 68 71 70 44 7a 20 81 53 8e 2d 08 d0 b4 22 ‹¬hqpDz SŽ-.д" 00000112 24 dc 48 b2 0e 97 d8 b8 e7 1c e3 bd 12 1d da 10 $ÜH².—ظç.ã½..Ú. 00000128 e8 b1 dc 10 21 28 70 44 7e 25 0e 53 e5 3e 23 e2 è±Ü.!(pD~%.Så>#â 00000144 50 ed b9 43 90 e3 ec 41 02 f0 82 1f 11 eb 1a 13 Pí¹CãìA.ð‚..ë.. 00000160 8f d0 88 22 3f c4 78 20 49 51 87 ef 3b 96 3f de Ј"?Äx IQ‡ï;–?Þ 00000176 71 ce 39 43 8f c4 58 2b 48 ee 10 51 a1 a4 71 ca qÎ9CÄX+Hî.Q¡¤qÊ 00000192 1c a1 e8 8e f7 71 1b 24 39 08 e4 c7 29 d6 08 8e .¡èŽ÷q.$9.äÇ)Ö.Ž 00000208 8f a8 e2 82 1a 64 74 d2 08 21 11 5b 1f 28 70 44 ¨â‚.dtÒ.!.[.(pD 00000224 7e 91 43 94 39 c7 08 10 ef c5 97 5c c3 b8 ac 63 ~‘C”9Ç..ïÅ—\ø¬c 00000240 ba 9d df 1d 20 40 98 b8 d0 c1 11 d6 08 8e 85 26 ºß. @˜¸ÐÁ.Ö.Ž…& 00000256 c8 e7 a0 44 7e a7 1c a1 d5 dc 20 af 04 0a 21 b2 Èç D~§.¡ÕÜ ¯..!² 00000272 3a 18 22 3e 23 a4 97 f8 c2 14 dd 44 6c 45 f6 47 :.">#¤—øÂ.ÝDlEöG 00000288 c8 fc 64 72 a8 97 41 50 82 23 e8 b1 c1 11 f6 27 Èüdr¨—AP‚#è±Á.ö' 00000304 1e b3 8f a9 31 e1 08 8b 82 04 2e d1 1f 43 9c 70 .³©1á.‹‚..Ñ.CœpThere are battered women? I've been eating 'em plain all of these years... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Conundrum 1 #12 February 16, 2008 I asked some friend of mine and this was the response: QuoteI've got an app that will open just about anything, but it had no clue on those two. I think he may have fucked them up when FTPing the files. If the guy can post the straight data, then we may be able to tackle it better. BTW, AFAIK, AC-Desee (sp) is supposed to be a pretty good "open everything" app on Windows. Never personally used it, though. GraphicConverter is the reigning champ on the Mac OS. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #13 February 16, 2008 Yeah... see these aren't "just" image files, they are a lot more data in it and that is the issue. I believe the files are a valid and are not an FTP mess up. AC-DSee is an photo editing tool that only will work with predefined file types, not "everything". ACDSee can't open Word documents even if thy have pictures embedded in them, heck it can't even open a vector graphic file like Illistrator would create. The SDK is going to be about the only option unless there is an application already wrote to do the converting for you. Based on the list of clients I saw that are using the software I can't believe Yahoo killed it with out offering a replacement... but then again this is Yahoo!. This is a job worth WAY more then $100. Developing the app from ground up is going to depend on the availbility of alot and you could be looking at 5 digits for development of the converter.Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ntrprnr 0 #14 February 16, 2008 Tried opening in everything from a PS Import to an ASCII viewer to a damn raw file image. I got nothing. But it killed 30 minutes at the airport, so thanks..._______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riddler 0 #15 February 16, 2008 Quote The SDK is going to be about the only option unless there is an application already wrote to do the converting for you. Yep. Converting thousands of files is the easy part. But you need to figure out the file format - that's the hard part. In fact, unless you can get someone from the company formerly known as Resumix to help you, I'd say that's a dead-end path. Another option - both GIMP and ImageMagick have great scripting capabilities, which you can use to automate the process of capturing a screenshot and converting it to a more standard file format. Either way, I'd say the value of your prize is off by about two orders of magnitude Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1969912 0 #16 February 17, 2008 QuoteYeah... see these aren't "just" image files, they are a lot more data in it and that is the issue. I believe the files are a valid and are not an FTP mess up. That sounds right. AFAIK (not much), when Resumix users send resumes to clients, the file is either a standard ASCII text or a TIFF image file. That should also apply to incoming files produced by optical scannning. The data files are in some kind of proprietary format, and likely contain more than just text and basic formatting information. There's essentially no technical information about Resumix on the web, so my opinion about your files is based only on a quick look at a couple patents and some very simple descriptions of their database search technology. If what you have are proprietary data files, your best bet might be to find the software someplace and use it to generate text/image files. I'm pretty sure the US military uses Resumix in all branches, and it looks like quite a few private companies and schools do as well. The IT weenies at a local university or military base might be a good place to start. "Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ." -NickDG Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheBachelor 5 #17 February 17, 2008 From the time I spent looking at the files, I figured they were a proprietary format and/or some sort of hybrid. There is a header on all of the files that is in a (human) readable format. I thought that if I stripped off those bytes, the remainder of the file would be in some "standard" image format. If that were the case, I had hoped that someone could figure out the format. I could write the app to do the conversion once I knew what I was dealing with. I just offered the c-note to see if someone would recognize the format.There are battered women? I've been eating 'em plain all of these years... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riddler 0 #18 February 17, 2008 QuoteI thought that if I stripped off those bytes, the remainder of the file would be in some "standard" image format. A few of us already tried that, but the remaining file isn't any standard format - I was guessing TIFF too, but that's not the case.Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nathaniel 0 #19 February 19, 2008 You could use a gui scripting tool to take the screenshots. Not the prettiest thing in the world but probably doable for less than $100. Couldn't you do all that in python these days?My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
