oposite side of EF you were google

[Gillian Densmore]

I'm not a google fanboy by any strech. However of the tools I  was familliar with googls docs was the only one able to extract raw text from a corrupted DOC formated file.Thus remind me why i'm partial to the open standard and or open source tools i've been using-

Amusingly the best tool for just my content? amusingly just good ol HTML- but only after I've written what all I need to. I've experimented with doing the composition side as draft  in WordPress(for example) or as I said other online notepads as well. That's because  my poor WinderZ rig is recovering from some elk of malware(a topic for a different ramble)-that said it amused me when I thought was done with analysis paper on my people play strategy game having pointed word to folder in drop box to save to- was up early to be wrong the file was bad-

Tossed it gdocs, copied the contents, save it as text and while I'm not as pleased with the content (at least for my discening standards) Libre had no issue oppening  save it as PDF and ODT on that end

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[Russell Standish-2]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 03:11:32PM -0600, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> I'm not a google fanboy by any strech. However of the tools I  was
> familliar with googls docs was the only one able to extract raw text from a
> corrupted DOC formated file.


Back in the day of Word 6, the unix tool "strings" extracted the raw
text from a Word file. I recovered many a corrupted .doc file that
way. I even recovered Word files from corrupted floppy disks the same
way for my wife (dd if=/dev/fd0|strings). Not so sure if it works from
Word 2003 onwards though, but then corrupted .doc files became rarer.

The other interesting thing to note is that you usually also recovered
all the revisions of the Word document - which I believe was the
technique that embarrassed the British Government during the ivasion
of Iraq.

And .docx files? They are actually just .zip files in disguise, so you
can try to unzip them. Then what you have should be a directory of
plain text XML files (OOXML anyone?) that you can load into any text
editor, or process with standard XML processing tools. If the zip file
is corrupted though, then you are probably SOL.


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