Monday, 19 June 2017

photo editing - Is it possible to recover original content from an edited image file?


OK possibly a random question here, but one that is relevant to the site and regarding a hot topic nowadays: privacy.


If I load an image file (in my case a PNG photocopy of a document which contains some personal details) into Gimp, and I 'fill' with black (i.e. as if to redact) the areas of the image that contain sensitive information, and I then overwrite the original file, is there any way that the original untouched image can be recovered or gleamed? Such as low level bit analysis or...?


If so what tools and techniques are behind that, and how can I mitigate this? Is it a simple case of not overwriting the original but simply creating a new file with the changes?




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