Export VCF image to JPEG

Question

I have created a .vcf contact with an iPhone and sent the file to myself in email. In that .vcf, I took a photo which is directly saved in the vCard, not in the phone's memory.

In the source of the .vcf, there is a code part starting like this:

PHOTO;ENCODING=b;TYPE=JPEG:/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/4QBYRXhpZgAATU0AKgAA

And it continues on... Now, I would like to get this photo and save it as a .JPEG. Any ideas how to do that?

Thanks.

Answer 1

In macOS, it easy to to from the line command with "vi" and "base64.

For example,

Export the "Apple Inc." contact that comes with every user account.

1. Use vi to manually remove the other lines.
2. Remove the heading and the meta-data for that line

PHOTO;ENCODING=b;TYPE=JPEG:

3. base64 decode the remaining file

# base64 -D -i Apple\ Inc..vcf -o Apple_Logo.jpeg

Answer 2

The encoding is Base64. You can find a tool for decoding online.

I can recommend Freeformatter.com's decoder, which lets you save as a binary file. You will then need to rename that file to photo.jpg.