Can you extract an image from the Preview Data?

Sometime ago I deleted an image and it's completely gone from my hard drive and backups.  There is still an image in the Library and even clicking on it shows the 1:1 view.
Is there a way of extracting this from the Preview Data - anything would be better than nothing?
Thxs
Colin

Pete....
Many thanks for that link.  Just what I needed.
And thanks to Jeffrey as well for making the tool available.
Colin

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