Open Source Perl Data Recovery Software

Docx2txt is a Perl based command-line utility to convert (even corrupted) Microsoft docx documents to reasonably formatted text files, along with appropriate character conversions. Apart from Perl it also requires a command line unzipping program like unzip/7z/pkzipc/wzunzip.

A simple GUI program that attempts to fully recover unopenable corrupt Open Office files or at least salvage the text. The program now offers an Alternatives menu with links to advice, services and software alternatives for recovery, including a shortcut to Recoveronix File Repair Online's corrupt file recovery service. Using the coupon "S2SERVICES" after a demo recovery of an Open Office odt or ods file will allow for a free full recovery until Nov 1, 2013, a $39 value. Also the program now features a zip repair pretreament in both modes. This program was previously known as Open Office Recovery.

Previously known as Damaged DOCX2TXT, this GUI program will extract text from damaged/corrupted Word 2007 - 2013 DOCX format documents. DOCX files are actually zipped collections of mostly XML files. The main text in docx files is found in document.xml file in the collection. Corrupt DOCX Salvager uses 7Zip, an unzipper that sometimes unzips partially corrupt document.xml files despite reporting an error. XML as a format is unforgiving of data corruption but Corrupt DOCX Salvager uses a Perl routine used to extract the text from the document.xml file which doesn't care about well-formed XML, a recovery stumbling block for Microsoft Word. Recent changes include the pretreatment of docx files with InfoZip's zip.exe -FF repair command, improving success rates. Also added are links to other solutions. If you are unsatisfied with the results, try my other corrupt Word recovery capable programs here on Sourceforge, S2 Recovery Tools for Word and Savvy DOCX Recovery.