Everything about File carving

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: File carvingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A Review of JPEG File Carving: Challenges, Techniques, and Future DirectionsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The paper playhouseThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The evolution of file carvingCited 126 times
5. Go sideways: Smart File SystemA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: PhotoRecA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The evolution of file carving

  A. Pal, N. Memon · 2009 · IEEE Signal Processing Magazine · 126 citations

• Carving Orphaned JPEG File Fragments

  Erkam Uzun, Husrev Taha Sencar · 2015 · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 32 citations

• A study on multimedia file carving method

  Byeongyeong Yoo, Jungheum Park, Sungsu Lim · 2011 · Multimedia Tools and Applications · 20 citations

• A novel file carving algorithm for National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) logs in GPS forensics

  Kai Shi, Ming Xu, Haoxia Jin · 2017 · Digital Investigation · 14 citations

• Decision-theoretic file carving

  Pavel Gladyshev, Joshua I. James · 2017 · Digital Investigation · 12 citations

• A Survey on Multimedia File Carving

  Raj Kumar Pahade, Bhupendra Singh, Upasna Singh · 2015 · International Journal of Computer Science & Engineering Survey · 10 citations

• JPEG image width estimation for file carving

  Xianyan Wu, Qi Han, Xiamu Niu · 2018 · IET Image Processing · 4 citations

• Advanced file carving: ontology, models and methods

  Maksym Boiko, Viacheslav Moskalenko, Oksana Shovkoplias · 2023 · Radioelectronic and Computer Systems · 4 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A Review of JPEG File Carving: Challenges, Techniques, and Future Directions

  Maryam Alzaabi, Aaisha Al Shibli · 2025 · Applied Computing Journal · 4 citations

• File Carving: Analyzing Data Retrieval in Digital Forensics

  Purna Chandra Sethi · 2024 · International Journal of Computer and Information Technology(2279-0764) · 3 citations

• Transformer-Based File Fragment Type Classification for File Carving in Digital Forensics

  Andrey Guzhov, Christoph Tobias Wirth · 2025 · European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security · 2 citations

• An Investigation on File Carving Tool Methodologies Using Scenario Based Image Creation

  AI & Cyber Security Department, School of Information Technology, Rashtriya Raksha University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, Hepi Suthar, Priyanka Sharma · 2024 · Indian Journal Of Science And Technology · 2 citations

• Analisis Perbandingan Jumlah File Carving untuk Format Ekstensi NTFS, FAT32 dan EXfat

  M Agus Kholilur Rahman, Yudi Prayudi, Erika Ramadhani · 2025 · JIIP - Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Pendidikan · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The paper playhouseKatrina Rodabaugh · 2014
• The Homeowner’s Ultimate Tool GuideSandor Nagyszalanczy · 2003
• 📕Wood rasp carving made with only a fileLouis James Haas · 1944
• 📕Wood rasp carving made with only a fileLouis J. (Louis James) Haas · 1944
• The Learn2 guideJason Roberts · 1999
• Gemstone settingsAnastasia Young · 2012
• Waldara AnswersWilliam Swygard · 1974

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