diff --git a/README b/README
index 8dca8a7..8e1ab3a 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -9,7 +9,20 @@ How to use:
 
 - Execute directly this script in the way:
 
-	/usr/bin/php fix-serialization.php my-sql-file.sql
+	- In place file processing
+ 	/usr/bin/php fix-serialization.php my-sql-file.sql
+ 	
+	- Stream processing Examples
+
+		-- Uncompressed to uncompressed
+		cat my-sql-file.sql | /usr/bin/php fix-serialization.php --stream > my-sql-fixed-file.sql
+
+		-- Compressed to compressed
+		gunzip < my-sql-file.sql.gz | /usr/bin/php fix-serialization.php --stream | gzip > my-sql-fixed-file.sql.gz
+	
+		-- Direct import into mysql from compressed
+		gunzip < my-sql-file.sql.gz | /usr/bin/php fix-serialization.php --stream | mysql -uuname -p "database name"
+	
 
 - Or use the shell script replace.sh that replaces with sed command each sql file in directory and call fix-serialization script
 
diff --git a/fix-serialization.php b/fix-serialization.php
index 2795801..76d64d0 100755
--- a/fix-serialization.php
+++ b/fix-serialization.php
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <?php
 
 /*
-* Blogestudio Fix Serialization	1.2
+* Blogestudio Fix Serialization	1.2-1
 * Fixer script of length attributes for serialized strings (e.g. Wordpress databases)
 * License: GPL version 3 or later - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
 * By Pau Iglesias
@@ -13,13 +13,26 @@
 * 
 * Usage:
 *
+*	-In place file processing
 * 	/usr/bin/php fix-serialization.php my-sql-file.sql
 *
+*	-Stream processing Examples
+*
+*	--Uncompressed to uncompressed
+*	cat my-sql-file.sql | /usr/bin/php fix-serialization.php --stream > my-sql-fixed-file.sql
+*
+*	--Compressed to compressed
+*	gunzip < my-sql-file.sql.gz | /usr/bin/php fix-serialization.php --stream | gzip > my-sql-fixed-file.sql.gz
+*
+*	--Direct import into mysql from compressed
+*	gunzip < my-sql-file.sql.gz | /usr/bin/php fix-serialization.php --stream | mysql -uuname -p "database name"
+*	
 * Versions:
 * 
 * 	1.0 2011-08-03 Initial release
 * 	1.1 2011-08-18 Support for backslashed quotes, added some code warnings
 * 	1.2 2011-09-29 Support for null or zero length strings after preg_replace is called, and explain how to handle these errors
+* 	1.2-1 2015-07-02 (jbrule) Added stream processing support to avoid the memory allocation issue when working with large database files (tested up to 6GB).
 * 
 * Knowed errors:
 *
@@ -37,8 +50,6 @@
 * 
 */
 
-
-
 // Unescape to avoid dump-text issues
 function unescape_mysql($value) {
 	return str_replace(array("\\\\", "\\0", "\\n", "\\r", "\Z",  "\'", '\"'),
@@ -46,17 +57,38 @@ function unescape_mysql($value) {
 					   $value);
 }
 
-
-
 // Fix strange behaviour if you have escaped quotes in your replacement
 function unescape_quotes($value) {
 	return str_replace('\"', '"', $value);
-}	
+}
 
+function replace_serialized_string_values($data){
+	// Replace serialized string values
+				
+	return preg_replace('!s:(\d+):([\\\\]?"[\\\\]?"|[\\\\]?"((.*?)[^\\\\])[\\\\]?");!e', "'s:'.strlen(unescape_mysql('$3')).':\"'.unescape_quotes('$3').'\";'", $data);
+}
 
+//Setup arguments to flag stream processing
+$options = getopt("s::",array("stream::"));
 
-// Check command line arguments
-if (!(isset($argv) && isset($argv[1]))) {
+//Check if data is being feed in via a pipe. Process line by line and output via stdout if that is the case.
+if((key_exists("s",$options) || key_exists("stream",$options)) && $fh = fopen('php://stdin','r')) {
+	stream_set_blocking($fh, false);
+	
+	$stdin = '';
+  
+	while (false !== ($stdin = fgets($fh))) {
+
+		//Note. $stdin is a single line of the dumpfile. In testing this appears to be fine as the mysqldump field values do not appear to span past a single line.
+	
+		// Replace serialized string values
+		$data = replace_serialized_string_values($stdin);
+		
+		fwrite(STDOUT,$data);
+		
+	}
+	fclose($fh); 
+} elseif (!(isset($argv) && isset($argv[1]))) { // Check command line arguments
 	
 	// Error
 	echo 'Error: no input file specified'."\n\n";
@@ -109,7 +141,7 @@ function unescape_quotes($value) {
 				$do_preg_replace = true;
 
 				// Replace serialized string values
-				$data = preg_replace('!s:(\d+):([\\\\]?"[\\\\]?"|[\\\\]?"((.*?)[^\\\\])[\\\\]?");!e', "'s:'.strlen(unescape_mysql('$3')).':\"'.unescape_quotes('$3').'\";'", $data);
+				$data = replace_serialized_string_values($data);
 			}
 
 			// Close file
@@ -155,7 +187,3 @@ function unescape_quotes($value) {
 		}
 	}
 }
-
-
-
-?>
\ No newline at end of file