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Misc. Corrupt Word Recovery
So far I've only found two programs to fit in here, but I'm keeping my eyes peeled and you can also try Microsoft's method's to find a temporary or deleted version with formatting. If neither works for you, you need formatting or better formatting or your in a hurry, try WordFix.
Name - Damaged docx2txt
Download URL - dd2txt-1.0.zip
Developer - Self
OS - Windows 2000 - Vista (requires Microsoft .NET Version 2 Framework)
File Size - 3.1
MB Zipped Supported Software Versions or File Systems -
1.0 Developer Provided Description - this is a
GUI
version of the great
docx2txt
Perl script by
Sandeep Kumar.
It will extract text from damaged/corrupted Word 2007 files where Word 2007
fails.
Word 2007 files are actually zipped collections of
XML files and XML as a format is unforgiving of data corruption.
The main text in Word 2007 docx files is found in document.xml file in
the collection. Damaged docx2txt uses CakeCMD , an unzipper that
will unzip partially corrupt document.xml files. Also the Perl
routine used to extract the text from the document.xml file doesn't care
about well-formedness of the XML, a possible stumbling block of Word
2007. The files in this package
include the command line version of the zip program
CakeCMD. Any
feedback is much appreciated.
Support requests can be sent to the feedback
E-mail. If Damaged docx2txt fails, or you need
more formatting recovered, try
WordFix... Comment - I coded this. It's salvages
the text from corrupt Word file even when Word 2007 refuses. It only
works on Word 2007.
Name - Last Resort Undeleter for MS Word Documents
Download URL - lasrlite
Developer - Robert Green
OS - Windows 95/98/ME
File Size - 56 KB Supported Software Versions or File Systems - All MS Word Versions Prior 2002 Developer Provided Description - "LASRLITE.EXE is a command line undeleter for lost Word documents on FAT file systems. It designed to run from pure DOS or from a DOS window on Windows 95/98/ME. It does not recover files from NTFS file systems. LASRLITE.EXE is freeware and may be freely distributed, unmodified and in the orignal distribution archive. LASRLITE.EXE is Copyright (c) 2001 by Robert Green. The author reserves all rights." Comment - With this program, if a Word file gets corrupt, you can undelete all Word files and find an earlier temporary version that Windows stored then deleted. Note, even without the program, you can also look for temporary files with the tmp extension in the directory where Word files are stored by default. The default storage location can be found under Tools -> Options -> File Locations and double click on "Documents". Just change the "tmp" extension to "doc." Note Bene - Visit Bob Greene's Site. He has a low priced programs for recovering unbootable disks called BootMaster Partition Recovery and also has the nice NTFS browser for DOS that can be used with the same. Freeware makers need to be supported.
