"DDRescue-GUI is a simple GUI application written in Python 2 and designed to provide users with an easy-to-use GUI (Graphical User Interface) front-end for the awesome GNU ddrescue command-line tool which dedicated to recovering data from hard drive, USB flash drive, cd, dvd corrupt."

-- source: http://ubuntuportal.com/2015/08/ddrescue-gui-ubuntu.html

Cheers, Peter