Trouble finding my contact's photos

Alright, here is the deal.. I recently restored my iPhone, unfortunately for me I forgot to backup the photos in my camera roll. I've been trying real hard to get these, once I accepted the fact that they were gone forever, somebody called me and their custom picture that I thought was deleted showed up... I took a look in my address book on my computer and his photo is there too.. Turns out a lot of the photos that I was missing soo much from my camera roll are saved as people's custom incoming call pictures in my address book.
My question is... How can I extract these photos in the largest size possible? I've looked all through my library and all I've found is small thumbnails... but I know the big ones are out there because they show up when people call on my phone!
Please help, thanks a ton!

Well for your computer, the images are most likely embeded into a data file with other stuff (not stored as a single image file). For the iPhone, the image most likely is stored into the phone where it manages contact info, but not a place you have access to.
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Other option, is that there are programs out there that allow reading of the iPhones backup files on your computer, however, don't know if they can get to the pictures (if they are even in the backup as for contacts, the backup I would assume is the sync to your address book...while the backup file holds settings and other info not part of a sync operation).

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