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Title: Saveofficedata.com IconCorrupt Office 2007 and Open Office Text/Data Extracting Service - BETA

Source Code Download Link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/saveofficedata/

Description: Upload corrupt docx, xlsx, pptx, odt, ods or odt or files for text extraction.  Even if the corresponding Office 2007 or OO application itself can't extract the file, this utility may work and it may be possible to
avoid retyping or re-entering the data. 

Additionally, this service will work with non-corrupt files. The service even extracts text from doc and rtf files but is unlikely to be successful with corrupt files for those extensions. 

New, three alternative results returned for docx files, arrived at via different coding algorithms!

Also try the freeware Damaged docx2txt and Corrupt xlsx2csv which may produce additional results.*

If none of these free methods work try the
demos for the commercial WordFIX, or ExcelFIX. 

Size: NA

OS: Any

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Title: IconDamaged docx2txt

Download Link: dd2txt-1.0.zip

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...

Size: 3.1 MB Zipped

OS: Windows 2000 - Vista (requires Microsoft .NET Version 2 Framework)

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Title: Corrupt xlsx2csvIcon

Download Link: corrupt-excel2csv-1.0.zip

Description: Corrupt xlsx2csv is a new freeware GUI program for salvaging the data from corrupt Excel 2007 files.  Xlsx Excel 2007 files are really zipped collections of XML files.  The main raw data is contained in the sharedStrings and numbered worksheet XML files.  XML is a very unforgiving medium when it comes to data corruption, thus if the sharedStrings and or worksheet XML files become corrupt, Excel has difficulty recovering the unformatted data.

Corrupt xlsx2csv uses a command line unzipping program that will unzip partially corrupt worksheet[#].xml and sharedStrings.xml files.  Also the Perl data extraction routines don't use XML techniques that care about well formed XML, a stumbling block for other Excel 2007 recovery programs.

If corruptxlsx2csv doesn't work, or you need format recovery try ExcelFIX...

Size: 3.58 MB Zipped

OS: Windows 2000 - Vista (requires Microsoft .NET Version 2 Framework)

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Corrupt xlsx2csv      

 

ScreenshotTitle: Data Recovery Freeware Google Group

Description: this Google Group contains 500+ link to freeware for recovering data lost to file corruption, deletion, failing disk or lost passwords.  It contains many more links than my data recovery freeware site, however, it goes into less detail.

Genealogy Software and Resources

Title: Excel2GEDIcon

Download Link: Excel2GEDv1.0-family.zip

Description: This Excel file features the ability to convert Excel data into the genealogy standard, GEDCOM format including the ability to specify family relationships. GEDCOM generation is initiated with a push of a VBA coded macro button.  

Size: 80 KB Zipped

OS: Windows 2000 - Vista, OSX

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Excel2GED screenshot       Excel Help Tab

Screenshot of file sectionTitle: Famous Family Trees Google Group

Description: this is the Google group version contains links, files and reviews of famous family trees including for instance the Bible family, Greek Gods, Royalty, Presidents etc. File will be in GEDCOM (GED), PDF or other formats.  

Misc

Title: No-Frills Command Line Unzipper

Download Link: no-frills-unzipper.zip

Description: Based on the Delphi-Zip library and coded by Ccy for S2 Services, No-Frills Command Line Unzipper offers the advantage of not requiring command switches. Commands are interpreted according to argument order. The first argument is the zip file, the second is the unarchive folder and the third and more are files to be unarchived.

If the second argument is extension-less, it is interpreted as a folder. Also note if no extension-less argument is provided in the second position the unzip folder is the current one. Several files to be unzipped can be placed in the 3rd, 4th, 5th etc arguments with a space as a separator (or 2nd, 3rd etc if no folder name is indicated).

NNo-frills has some additional advantages over for example zlib based unzippers. It unzips Microsoft Office 2007 files without an added a zip extension. It excels at unzipping corrupted zip and Microsoft Office 2007 files without the specification of additional options. 

Note: for corrupt zip files, misleading errors have yet to coded out. The successful unzipping for instance of files failing the cyclic redundancy check within the archive will occur despite the errors indicated.

Size: 777.86 KB zipped

OS: 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7?

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Title: SoftSearch

DownloadLink: softsearchfull.zip

Description: SoftSearch is a search engine tool which allows you to do bulk Web searches. It allows you to upload a text file of up to 100 search terms or phrases separated by carriage returns. It then returns 2-20 results for each term in html or text.  It creates an Access database to do this.  You need Access installed or maybe an Access runtime. Also requires comdlg32.ocx, not included with the distribution.

Size: 104 KB zipped

OS: 2000, XP, Vista?

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