Small, rough Python script to convert KQP files to JPG.
This script is heavily indebted to several 1996 Usenet posters, especially Ed Hamrick. See https://web.archive.org/web/20240611193131/https://groups.google.com/g/rec.photo.digital/c/lkz_8p8S2U0 for the analysis on which it is based.
.KQP is a raster graphics format associated with Konica Picture Show, and related software (PC PictureShow).
Just before the turn of the century, Konica partnered with photo shops and drugstores to run a scanning service for home photos. After developing your pictures, they would scan your film for a small fee ... and give you a floppy disk with digital photos and a copy of the Konica “PC PictureShow” program. The program automatically loads the images on the disk and lets you view photos on your PC. The scans are only 600 x 400 pixels, but that was plenty large for your average home snapshots back in 1999.
Unfortunately, this is a proprietary file format. The creator, Konica, "merged with Minolta to form Konica Minolta in 2003, and ... then got out of the camera business in 2006 – selling most of its operations to Sony" (Parts Not Included). Despite that, however, the format is more or less a modified JPEG, which has allowed conversion into that format.
Navigate to the folder containing the KQP files you wish to convert, then invoke the Python script.
I have included two test files. Both are from the same 3.5" floppy disk, probably from the late 1990s, and depict a high-school track meet.
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21_18A.KQP shows a person rolling around in grass next to a track while someone holding a pole or javelin stands next to them. A red pole or javelin bisects the image. (Other photos in the series make it clear that this red stripe is a physical object and not an error)
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25_22A.KQP shows several people on a field. One is practicing javelin or pole vault, one is watching the practicer, and two are holding poles or javelins and talking to each other.