Damaged DOCX2TXT 0.52

Damaged DOCX2TXT 0.52  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.

Damaged DOCX2TX uses an unzipper which is tolerant of XML file corruption and uses Perl coding to extract the text from the document.xml file where all of the unformatted text resides in a docx file. Since this Perl coding does not use a standard XML reading applet or module but simply removes the hypertext around the text, the result is more less perfectly extracted text until that part of the document.xml file where the corruption starts, is reached. Word 2007 on the other hand appears to return return no results if it encounters any errors at all in the document.xml file.

Major Features:

• Salvages the text from corrupt Word file even when Word 2007 refuses
  
• Have a Perl/Tk GUI front end.

Requirements:

• .Net Version 2
• Windows 2000 - Vista