This is so emberasing... not only to me but to Adobe for not using deep
file type checking. They were actually bitmaps named .tif. I tried
changing the file extension to everything I could think of, but never
tried .bmp for some reason.
I found this out when I tried to open them in IrfanView. It advised me
that the extension was incorrect, so I fixed that, and everything
worked. They were tifs when they were stored in the database, but I
think the updates to the extraction program must have decompressed the
images as it extracted them, so it didn't work the same as it did last
time.
Thank you everyone for your help. I actually thought it was a
compression problem for a while too, but I found the right solution
before I started exploring the possibility of compression.
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