The quantity and complexity of digital image data is rapidly expanding. The user does not meet the demands of traditional information recovery technology, so an efficient system for content-based image collection must be developed. The image recovery from material becomes a source of reliable and rapid recovery. In this paper, characteristics such as color correlogram, texture, form, edge density are compared. For understanding and acquiring much better knowledge on a specific subject, literature surveys are most relevant. In this paper, we discuss some technical aspects of the current image recovery systems based on content