diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index de1baad38..cfdfeb724 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
     "stream-browserify": "^3.0.0",
     "stream-http": "^3.2.0",
     "url": "^0.11.3",
+    "utif2": "4.1.0",
     "util": "^0.12.5",
     "uuid": "^14.0.0",
     "web-vitals": "^0.2.4",
diff --git a/src/app/drive/services/image-preview.service/embeddedJpeg.node.test.ts b/src/app/drive/services/image-preview.service/embeddedJpeg.node.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9eb4f8976
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/app/drive/services/image-preview.service/embeddedJpeg.node.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+import { buildJpeg, concatBytes, JPEG_FRAME } from 'testUtils/imageBuilders';
+import { describe, expect, test } from 'vitest';
+import { findLargestEmbeddedJpeg } from './embeddedJpeg';
+
+const noise = (length: number): Uint8Array => Uint8Array.from({ length }, (_, index) => (index * 37 + 11) & 0xff);
+
+describe('findLargestEmbeddedJpeg', () => {
+  test('when the bytes contain no JPEG, then it returns null', () => {
+    expect(findLargestEmbeddedJpeg(noise(4096))).toBeNull();
+    expect(findLargestEmbeddedJpeg(new Uint8Array(0))).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  test('when a JPEG is surrounded by other bytes, then it returns exactly the JPEG bytes', () => {
+    const jpeg = buildJpeg({ width: 640, height: 480 });
+
+    expect(findLargestEmbeddedJpeg(concatBytes(noise(300), jpeg, noise(200)))).toEqual(jpeg);
+  });
+
+  test('when several JPEGs are embedded, then it returns the one with most pixels', () => {
+    const small = buildJpeg({ width: 160, height: 120 });
+    const large = buildJpeg({ width: 1920, height: 1280 });
+    const medium = buildJpeg({ width: 800, height: 600 });
+
+    expect(findLargestEmbeddedJpeg(concatBytes(small, noise(50), large, noise(50), medium))).toEqual(large);
+  });
+
+  test('when larger streams are not browser-decodable colour JPEGs, then they are ignored', () => {
+    const preview = buildJpeg({ width: 1024, height: 768 });
+    const losslessSensorData = buildJpeg({ width: 6000, height: 4000, frameMarker: JPEG_FRAME.lossless });
+    const twelveBitTile = buildJpeg({
+      width: 1952,
+      height: 552,
+      frameMarker: JPEG_FRAME.extendedSequential,
+      precision: 12,
+    });
+    const grayscaleTile = buildJpeg({ width: 4000, height: 3000, components: 1 });
+
+    const bytes = concatBytes(losslessSensorData, twelveBitTile, preview, grayscaleTile);
+
+    expect(findLargestEmbeddedJpeg(bytes)).toEqual(preview);
+  });
+
+  test('when a stream is malformed or truncated, then it is skipped in favour of a complete one', () => {
+    const truncated = buildJpeg({ width: 4000, height: 3000, hasEndOfImage: false });
+    const interruptedByNewImage = concatBytes(truncated, buildJpeg({ width: 320, height: 240 }));
+    const brokenSegment = Uint8Array.from([0xff, 0xd8, 0xff, 0xe0, 0x00, 0x10, 0x00]);
+
+    expect(findLargestEmbeddedJpeg(truncated)).toBeNull();
+    expect(findLargestEmbeddedJpeg(interruptedByNewImage)).toEqual(buildJpeg({ width: 320, height: 240 }));
+    expect(findLargestEmbeddedJpeg(brokenSegment)).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  test('when the only stream is smaller than 64px, then it returns null', () => {
+    expect(findLargestEmbeddedJpeg(buildJpeg({ width: 32, height: 24 }))).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/app/drive/services/image-preview.service/embeddedJpeg.ts b/src/app/drive/services/image-preview.service/embeddedJpeg.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..758e175cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/app/drive/services/image-preview.service/embeddedJpeg.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+const MARKER_PREFIX = 0xff;
+const START_OF_IMAGE = 0xd8;
+const END_OF_IMAGE = 0xd9;
+const START_OF_SCAN = 0xda;
+const BROWSER_DECODABLE_FRAMES = new Set([0xc0, 0xc1, 0xc2]);
+const OTHER_FRAME_MARKERS = new Set([0xc3, 0xc5, 0xc6, 0xc7, 0xc9, 0xca, 0xcb, 0xcd, 0xce, 0xcf]);
+const STANDALONE_MARKERS = new Set([0x01, 0xd0, 0xd1, 0xd2, 0xd3, 0xd4, 0xd5, 0xd6, 0xd7]);
+const EIGHT_BIT_PRECISION = 8;
+const COLOR_COMPONENT_COUNT = 3;
+const MIN_PREVIEW_LONG_SIDE = 64;
+const MARKER_SIZE = 2;
+const MARKER_CODE_OFFSET = 1;
+const FILL_BYTE_SIZE = 1;
+const SEGMENT_LENGTH_SIZE = 2;
+const START_OF_IMAGE_SIGNATURE_SIZE = 3;
+const FRAME_HEADER_OFFSET = { precision: 4, height: 5, width: 7, componentCount: 9 };
+
+interface JpegCandidate {
+  start: number;
+  end: number;
+  pixelCount: number;
+}
+
+interface FrameDimensions {
+  width: number;
+  height: number;
+}
+
+const readUint16 = (bytes: Uint8Array, offset: number): number => (bytes[offset] << 8) | bytes[offset + 1];
+
+const isStartOfImageAt = (bytes: Uint8Array, position: number): boolean =>
+  bytes[position] === MARKER_PREFIX &&
+  bytes[position + MARKER_CODE_OFFSET] === START_OF_IMAGE &&
+  bytes[position + MARKER_SIZE] === MARKER_PREFIX;
+
+const findEndOfImage = (bytes: Uint8Array, scanStart: number): number | null => {
+  for (let position = scanStart; position + MARKER_SIZE <= bytes.length; position++) {
+    if (bytes[position] !== MARKER_PREFIX) continue;
+    if (bytes[position + MARKER_CODE_OFFSET] === END_OF_IMAGE) return position + MARKER_SIZE;
+    if (bytes[position + MARKER_CODE_OFFSET] === START_OF_IMAGE) return null;
+  }
+  return null;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Reads the dimensions of the frame header starting at `position`. Returns null when the
+ * frame is not 8-bit / 3-component or is too small to serve as a preview.
+ */
+const readFrameHeader = (bytes: Uint8Array, position: number): FrameDimensions | null => {
+  const isEightBitColor =
+    bytes[position + FRAME_HEADER_OFFSET.precision] === EIGHT_BIT_PRECISION &&
+    bytes[position + FRAME_HEADER_OFFSET.componentCount] === COLOR_COMPONENT_COUNT;
+  if (!isEightBitColor) return null;
+
+  const height = readUint16(bytes, position + FRAME_HEADER_OFFSET.height);
+  const width = readUint16(bytes, position + FRAME_HEADER_OFFSET.width);
+  if (Math.max(width, height) < MIN_PREVIEW_LONG_SIDE) return null;
+
+  return { width, height };
+};
+
+/**
+ * Walks the JPEG segments starting at `start`. Returns null when the stream is malformed
+ * or is not an 8-bit colour JPEG browsers can decode (lossless or 12-bit sensor tiles).
+ */
+const parseJpegAt = (bytes: Uint8Array, start: number): JpegCandidate | null => {
+  let position = start + MARKER_SIZE;
+  let pixelCount = 0;
+
+  while (position + MARKER_SIZE + SEGMENT_LENGTH_SIZE <= bytes.length) {
+    if (bytes[position] !== MARKER_PREFIX) return null;
+    const marker = bytes[position + MARKER_CODE_OFFSET];
+
+    if (marker === MARKER_PREFIX || STANDALONE_MARKERS.has(marker)) {
+      position += marker === MARKER_PREFIX ? FILL_BYTE_SIZE : MARKER_SIZE;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (marker === START_OF_IMAGE || marker === END_OF_IMAGE || OTHER_FRAME_MARKERS.has(marker)) return null;
+
+    if (BROWSER_DECODABLE_FRAMES.has(marker)) {
+      const frame = readFrameHeader(bytes, position);
+      if (!frame) return null;
+      pixelCount = frame.width * frame.height;
+    }
+
+    position += MARKER_SIZE + readUint16(bytes, position + MARKER_SIZE);
+
+    if (marker === START_OF_SCAN) {
+      const end = pixelCount > 0 ? findEndOfImage(bytes, position) : null;
+      return end === null ? null : { start, end, pixelCount };
+    }
+  }
+
+  return null;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Returns the largest browser-decodable JPEG embedded in a binary file (camera RAW
+ * files carry one as preview), or null when there is none.
+ */
+export const findLargestEmbeddedJpeg = (bytes: Uint8Array): Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer> | null => {
+  let largest: JpegCandidate | null = null;
+  let position = 0;
+
+  while (position + START_OF_IMAGE_SIGNATURE_SIZE < bytes.length) {
+    const candidate = isStartOfImageAt(bytes, position) ? parseJpegAt(bytes, position) : null;
+
+    if (!candidate) {
+      position += 1;
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    if (!largest || candidate.pixelCount > largest.pixelCount) largest = candidate;
+    position = candidate.end;
+  }
+
+  return largest ? bytes.slice(largest.start, largest.end) : null;
+};
diff --git a/src/testUtils/imageBuilders.ts b/src/testUtils/imageBuilders.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1f89bd697
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/testUtils/imageBuilders.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,157 @@
+/**
+ * Builders for tiny synthetic JPEG and TIFF files used by the image preview tests,
+ * so no binary fixtures need to live in the repository.
+ */
+
+export const JPEG_FRAME = { baseline: 0xc0, extendedSequential: 0xc1, lossless: 0xc3 };
+export const TIFF_PHOTOMETRIC = { rgb: 2, colorFilterArray: 32803 };
+export const TIFF_COMPRESSION = { none: 1, nikon: 34713 };
+/** Pixels written by `buildTiff`: red grows from 0 to 255 left to right, green and blue are fixed. */
+export const TIFF_PIXEL = { green: 20, blue: 200 };
+
+const RGB_CHANNELS = 3;
+const JPEG_MARKER_PREFIX = 0xff;
+
+const uint16 = (value: number): number[] => [value >> 8, value & 0xff];
+
+const jpegSegment = (marker: number, payload: number[]): number[] => [
+  JPEG_MARKER_PREFIX,
+  marker,
+  ...uint16(payload.length + 2),
+  ...payload,
+];
+
+export const concatBytes = (...chunks: Uint8Array[]): Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer> => {
+  const result = new Uint8Array(chunks.reduce((total, chunk) => total + chunk.length, 0));
+  let offset = 0;
+  for (const chunk of chunks) {
+    result.set(chunk, offset);
+    offset += chunk.length;
+  }
+  return result;
+};
+
+interface JpegOptions {
+  width: number;
+  height: number;
+  frameMarker?: number;
+  precision?: number;
+  components?: number;
+  hasEndOfImage?: boolean;
+}
+
+/** Builds a structurally valid JPEG (markers only, dummy scan data) with the given frame header. */
+export const buildJpeg = ({
+  width,
+  height,
+  frameMarker = JPEG_FRAME.baseline,
+  precision = 8,
+  components = 3,
+  hasEndOfImage = true,
+}: JpegOptions): Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer> => {
+  const componentSpecs = Array.from({ length: components }, (_, index) => [index + 1, 0x11, 0]).flat();
+  const scanData = [0x12, 0x34, 0xff, 0x00, 0x56, 0xff, 0xd0, 0x78, 0x9a];
+
+  return Uint8Array.from([
+    0xff,
+    0xd8,
+    ...jpegSegment(0xe0, [0x4a, 0x46, 0x49, 0x46, 0x00]),
+    ...jpegSegment(frameMarker, [precision, ...uint16(height), ...uint16(width), components, ...componentSpecs]),
+    ...jpegSegment(0xda, [components, 1, 0, 0, 63, 0]),
+    ...scanData,
+    ...(hasEndOfImage ? [0xff, 0xd9] : []),
+  ]);
+};
+
+/** Reads width and height from the first frame header of a JPEG. */
+export const readJpegDimensions = (bytes: Uint8Array): { width: number; height: number } | null => {
+  for (
+    let position = 2;
+    position + 9 < bytes.length;
+    position += 2 + ((bytes[position + 2] << 8) | bytes[position + 3])
+  ) {
+    const isFrameHeader = [JPEG_FRAME.baseline, JPEG_FRAME.extendedSequential, 0xc2].includes(bytes[position + 1]);
+    if (isFrameHeader) {
+      return {
+        height: (bytes[position + 5] << 8) | bytes[position + 6],
+        width: (bytes[position + 7] << 8) | bytes[position + 8],
+      };
+    }
+  }
+  return null;
+};
+
+export interface TiffPage {
+  width: number;
+  height: number;
+  photometric?: number;
+  compression?: number;
+}
+
+const TIFF_ENTRY_COUNT = 9;
+const TIFF_ENTRY_SIZE = 12;
+const TIFF_IFD_SIZE = 2 + TIFF_ENTRY_COUNT * TIFF_ENTRY_SIZE + 4;
+const TIFF_BITS_PER_SAMPLE_SIZE = 6;
+const SHORT = 3;
+const LONG = 4;
+
+const writeTiffPage = (view: DataView, bytes: Uint8Array, ifdOffset: number, page: TiffPage, nextIfdOffset: number) => {
+  const { width, height, photometric = TIFF_PHOTOMETRIC.rgb, compression = TIFF_COMPRESSION.none } = page;
+  const bitsOffset = ifdOffset + TIFF_IFD_SIZE;
+  const pixelsOffset = bitsOffset + TIFF_BITS_PER_SAMPLE_SIZE;
+  const entries: Array<[tag: number, type: number, count: number, value: number]> = [
+    [256, LONG, 1, width],
+    [257, LONG, 1, height],
+    [258, SHORT, RGB_CHANNELS, bitsOffset],
+    [259, SHORT, 1, compression],
+    [262, SHORT, 1, photometric],
+    [273, LONG, 1, pixelsOffset],
+    [277, SHORT, 1, RGB_CHANNELS],
+    [278, LONG, 1, height],
+    [279, LONG, 1, width * height * RGB_CHANNELS],
+  ];
+
+  view.setUint16(ifdOffset, entries.length);
+  entries.forEach(([tag, type, count, value], index) => {
+    const entryOffset = ifdOffset + 2 + index * TIFF_ENTRY_SIZE;
+    const isInlineShort = type === SHORT && count === 1;
+    view.setUint16(entryOffset, tag);
+    view.setUint16(entryOffset + 2, type);
+    view.setUint32(entryOffset + 4, count);
+    if (isInlineShort) view.setUint16(entryOffset + 8, value);
+    else view.setUint32(entryOffset + 8, value);
+  });
+  view.setUint32(ifdOffset + 2 + entries.length * TIFF_ENTRY_SIZE, nextIfdOffset);
+  [0, 2, 4].forEach((offset) => view.setUint16(bitsOffset + offset, 8));
+
+  for (let y = 0; y < height; y++) {
+    for (let x = 0; x < width; x++) {
+      const offset = pixelsOffset + (y * width + x) * RGB_CHANNELS;
+      bytes[offset] = Math.round((x * 255) / Math.max(width - 1, 1));
+      bytes[offset + 1] = TIFF_PIXEL.green;
+      bytes[offset + 2] = TIFF_PIXEL.blue;
+    }
+  }
+};
+
+/** Builds a big-endian, uncompressed RGB TIFF with one single-strip page per entry. */
+export const buildTiff = (pages: TiffPage[]): ArrayBuffer => {
+  const pageSize = (page: TiffPage) =>
+    TIFF_IFD_SIZE + TIFF_BITS_PER_SAMPLE_SIZE + page.width * page.height * RGB_CHANNELS;
+  const buffer = new ArrayBuffer(8 + pages.reduce((total, page) => total + pageSize(page), 0));
+  const view = new DataView(buffer);
+  const bytes = new Uint8Array(buffer);
+
+  bytes.set([0x4d, 0x4d, 0x00, 0x2a]);
+  view.setUint32(4, 8);
+
+  let ifdOffset = 8;
+  pages.forEach((page, index) => {
+    const isLastPage = index === pages.length - 1;
+    const nextIfdOffset = isLastPage ? 0 : ifdOffset + pageSize(page);
+    writeTiffPage(view, bytes, ifdOffset, page, nextIfdOffset);
+    ifdOffset = nextIfdOffset;
+  });
+
+  return buffer;
+};
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index f21c8ce62..4b3c1c87c 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -9681,6 +9681,13 @@ use-sync-external-store@^1.6.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/use-sync-external-store/-/use-sync-external-store-1.6.0.tgz#b174bfa65cb2b526732d9f2ac0a408027876f32d"
   integrity sha512-Pp6GSwGP/NrPIrxVFAIkOQeyw8lFenOHijQWkUTrDvrF4ALqylP2C/KCkeS9dpUM3KvYRQhna5vt7IL95+ZQ9w==
 
+utif2@4.1.0:
+  version "4.1.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/utif2/-/utif2-4.1.0.tgz#e768d37bd619b995d56d9780b5d2b4611a3d932b"
+  integrity sha512-+oknB9FHrJ7oW7A2WZYajOcv4FcDR4CfoGB0dPNfxbi4GO05RRnFmt5oa23+9w32EanrYcSJWspUiJkLMs+37w==
+  dependencies:
+    pako "^1.0.11"
+
 util-deprecate@^1.0.1, util-deprecate@^1.0.2, util-deprecate@~1.0.1:
   version "1.0.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/util-deprecate/-/util-deprecate-1.0.2.tgz#450d4dc9fa70de732762fbd2d4a28981419a0ccf"