Damaged DOCX2TXT requires the installation of the
Microsoft .Net version 2 framework. Using a GUI front
end and a Perl coded back end, Damaged DOCX2TXT will
extract the text even from damaged or corrupted Word
2007 docx files where Word 2007 itself fails to
salvage text. It can also be simply used as a viewer
of the text in a docx file without having Word 2007.
Word 2007 files are really zipped collections of
mostly XML files. XML is not tolerant of file
corruption. The text from a Word 2007 document is
found in the document.xml file within the zipped
collection. From the errors generated it appears that
Word 2007 is using a fairly corrupt intolerant XML
reading algorithm or module to even salvage text from
this XML file within corrupt Word 2007 docx files.
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

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