Converting KQP files to JPEG

[James Truitt]

Hi all,

I came across some KQP files this morning on a Konica Picture Show floppy. Since I couldn't find any existing ways of converting them to something more open without emulating WindowsXP, I took a leaf out of Corey Forman's book and, with the guidance of Usenet, carved into one with a hex editor to get a usable JPEG. 

I've written a little Python script to automate the process, and am posting it here so that the next person who has to deal with these files will have something more to go on.

Best,

James Truitt

Swarthmore College

[Kieran O Leary]

Hi James,

This is such brilliant work and thank you for sharing that code and this process with the community. 

Out of curiosity, do you have any sample images that you could share in order to test out the script?

Best,

Kieran O’Leary

Digital Repository Services Manager

National Library of Ireland 

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[James Truitt]

Hi Kieran,

No problem!

I've updated the GitHub rep with a pair of test files. The images I found were from a high school prom and track meet, so most of them don't feel right to circulate, but I've chosen a couple where no one's face is visible. Hope that's useful!

Best,

James 

[Kieran O Leary]

Thank you James, looking forward to testing them out!

K

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[co...@digitalsleuth.ca]

This is excellent, James! I'd also recommend seeing if the tool deark (https://github.com/jsummers/deark) can do this as well and, if not, perhaps submit a pull request to see if they can add it to the tool!

[Tyler Thorsted]

James, this is awesome. There seems to be a never ending supply of old formats that need our attention!

The new quantization table I submitted on GitHub is what the Konica PC PhotoShow software uses when it exports your KQP files to JPG. 

I have found a few other KQP files which won't render after conversion with the script, and it seems later versions of KQP used a different header, identical to the Pegasus PIC format. If you are interested, I can share samples.

Tyler Thorsted