Savvy DOCX Recovery

Savvy DOCX Recovery is a lightweight software application whose purpose is to help you restore corrupt DOCX files in order to be able to recover the original text content.

The tool sports a simplistic GUI that has to offer only a few configuration settings. The GUI cannot be described as clean because it embeds links to other third-party programs that have nothing to do with its functionality.

Corrupt files can be added in the working environment using the built-in browse button (you cannot rely on the drag-and-drop support). There’s support for an online help manual in case you cannot decode the app’s settings on your own.

Savvy DOCX Recovery lets you pick the target file that you want to fix. It works with Microsoft Word 2007-2013 formats, more specifically DOCX, DOCM, DOTX, and DOTM.

The application helps you automatically identify the issues that cause Microsoft Word opening errors and fix the documents using different recovery methods.

In case the utility bumps into unspecified errors, it removes the bad tag. If tags do not match errors, it automatically reorders tags. When it comes to dealing with all sorts of errors, Savvy DOCX Recovery uses the command-line program (xmllint) included in the package for helping you repair XML files or save the text.

Savvy DOCX Recovery does not eat up a lot of CPU and memory so the overall performance of the computer is not hampered.

All things considered, Savvy DOCX Recovery delivers an automatic and straightforward software solution for helping you repair corrupt documents. We have tested it on Windows 8.1 Pro and noticed that the application becomes unresponsive at times when it tries to repair DOCX files.