RDP Bitmap Cache parser.
bmc-tools processes bcache*.bmc and cache????.bin files found inside Windows user profiles.
./bmc-tools.py [-h] -s SRC -d DEST [-c COUNT] [-v] [-o] [-b] [-w WIDTH]
With the following arguments meaning:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-s SRC, --src SRC Specify the BMCache file or directory to process.
-d DEST, --dest DEST Specify the directory where to store the extracted bitmaps.
-c COUNT, --count COUNT Only extract the given number of bitmaps.
-v, --verbose Determine the amount of information displayed.
-o, --old Extract the old bitmap data found in the BMCache file.
-b, --bitmap Provide a collage bitmap aggregating all the tiles.
-w WIDTH, --width WIDTH Specify the number of tiles per line of the aggregated bitmap (default=64).
-k, --kape Use this option to split out the different inputs into separate folders
08/04/2026 3.05 Added support for old bitmap data in BMCache files.
01/12/2023 3.04 Fix memory usage for huge speed improvement
15/05/2023 3.03 Added KAPE output to split output into seperate folders
02/03/2023 3.02 Added destination folder existence check beforehand.
01/03/2023 3.01 Fixed old Bitmaps storage and export.
10/02/2022 3.00 Now performing tile decompression.
07/12/2020 2.11 Corrected minor string printing issue under Python3.
07/12/2020 2.10 Improved collage creation under Python3.
04/12/2020 2.00 Now compatible with both Python2 and Python3.
23/11/2020 1.04 Fixed Bitmap size field.
30/04/2018 1.03 Added extra aggregated bitmap/collage output.
22/04/2018 1.02 Added support for (old?) bcache23.bmc files.
25/11/2016 1.01 Compressed data handling improved.
25/11/2016 1.00c Unused variable removed.
10/08/2016 1.00b --dest parameter processing fixed.
01/07/2016 1.00a cacheXXXX.bin header detection fixed.
27/06/2016 1.00 Initial release.