Ipad 2 unexpectedly reset and all data lost

Hi everyone.
My wife was recently using our iPad 2 when it decided to turn off with over 70% battery remaining. Upon turning back on it had performed a factory reset and acted as though it was a new iPad with no data at all.
While some apps could be retrieved via iTunes all of our photos from the last few years have disappeared. Very few of them are on iCloud and what we had backed up was on our old laptop which died (lesson learned about regular back ups - even if it shouldn't have happened). iOS version now shows as 8.1 (downloading) not that we intended to do the latest update.
This was completely random and happened while browsing the internet.
I have seen programs that claim to be able to retrieve data on first generation iPads but none that can do it on the mk 2. Surely the data must still be in the memory as nothing has been saved to overwrite it?
Is there any hope??

iPhone Backup Extractor claims to work with any iPad, not just the first model. I heve never used one of these softwares and what I do not understand is that they claim to be able to extract files from your iTunes or iCloud backups. What is confusing to me is that of you have an iTunes or iCloud backup, what on earth do you need this software for? Why couldn't one simply restore that backup? I must be missing something, because that makes no sense to me at all.
http://www.iphonebackupextractor.com

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