About

Corrupt Office Suite
 Text/Data Extracting
 Service - BETA

My name is Paul Pruitt and my company is S2 Services. This service is an outgrowth of the S2 Services Data Recovery Freeware List, which I have been maintaining since 2003.

With Office 2007, Word, Excel and PowerPoint started using a new default file format. These files are really zipped collections of XML files despite their various extensions like docx, xlsx etc. You can see this by changing any of these file extensions to zip and opening it with favorite unzipper or Windows Explorer's built-in unzipper.

This format has made data recovery easier. Most corruption issues with these new files are due to zip corruptions. The various Office programs do a pretty good job of recovering corrupt files unless the "content" xml files are the part of the zip that is corrupted, then they sometimes fail. The text in a Word 2007 or 2010 docx file is found in the document.xml file for instance and if this is the part of the zip that is corrupted it will sometimes trip up Word. My service does a little better at recovering data from the content files than does MS Office itself.

The service is possibly insecure and does not have security certification. Please do not upload security sensitive files. Instead see the links section for freeware and Open Source ware that does the same extracting or check out the list in the next paragraph.

For secure local work on your own computer, try the freeware RepairMyWord (only works with Word 97-2003 files), Damaged docx2txt, Corrupt xlsx2csv, Corrupt Office Extractor. Or the command line SILVERCODERS DocToText, Ccy's Corrupt Office 2007 Extractor Command-line and Sandeep Kumar's docx2txt.

If none of these free methods work or you need to fix or extract text from older Excel or PowerPoint 97-2003 format files, I recommend trying the demos for the commercial WordFix, or ExcelFix. For PowerPoint recovery or other commercial recovery software and service vendors try these links: Corrupt File Recovery Services and Corrupt File Commercialware.