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+package org.apache.poi.util;
+
+import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook;
+import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFSheet;
+import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem;
+
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * Dump out the aggregated escher records
+ */
+public class DrawingDump
+{
+    public static void main( String[] args ) throws IOException
+    {
+        POIFSFileSystem fs      =
+                new POIFSFileSystem(new FileInputStream(args[0]));
+        HSSFWorkbook wb = new HSSFWorkbook(fs);
+        HSSFSheet sheet = wb.getSheetAt(0);
+        sheet.dumpDrawingRecords();
+    }
+}