Word won’t open your document?

Readable text from a DOCX body

A DOCX file is a ZIP package. If its directory and main body at word/document.xml remain readable, this tool can extract that body even when another part of the document is damaged. It checks the body checksum and XML structure before showing any text.

This is not a repair of the Word file itself. A damaged ZIP directory or damaged body XML cannot be reconstructed. A successful extraction does not prove that all original text survived. The preview shows up to 50,000 characters; the download includes all extracted text within the limit.

What is left out?

Formatting, pictures, equations, headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes, comments, text boxes, embedded objects and tracked changes are excluded. Table text may appear as separate lines without its layout. Scanned pages are not read with OCR. Transitional WordprocessingML is supported; other package layouts and Strict DOCX are not supported.

If your file cannot be read

1. Keep your original and work on a copy.
2. Try Word’s Open and Repair command on that copy.
3. Check backup copies, email attachments or cloud version history.
4. If Word can open a legacy DOC file, save a copy as DOCX before using this tool. Renaming its extension does not convert it.

Password-protected documents, legacy DOC files and deleted-file recovery are not supported. No password bypass or guessed text is provided.