Repair a corrupted Word document
Fix corrupted .docx files in your browser: rebuilds the ZIP container and heals broken XML to recover your text. Free, no sign-up, never uploaded.
Drop the damaged file here
or click to choose — DOCX,ZIP · rebuilt on your device, never uploaded
Rebuilding in your browser…
Scanning entries and healing XML — nothing uploaded
A .docx that refuses to open — “the file is corrupted”, “content is unreadable” — is almost always a damaged ZIP container or a truncated XML part: an interrupted download, a failing USB drive, a crashed save. The text itself usually survived inside the file.
Drop the document here: the repair runs entirely in your browser. Rollphy rescans the raw bytes for readable parts, recovers every intact document component, heals truncated XML, and writes a clean .docx that Word can open again. Nothing is uploaded — thesis drafts and contracts stay on your machine.
Recovered documents open in Word, LibreOffice, Pages and Google Docs. Parts that were physically absent from the damaged file can’t be restored, and the post-repair report tells you exactly what was healed and what was skipped.
Frequently asked questions
- Word says the content is unreadable — can this tool recover the text?
- In most cases yes. The document body lives in XML parts inside the file; as long as those parts are present, the repair rebuilds a container Word accepts and heals broken XML along the way.
- Do I need to install anything?
- No. The repair runs in your browser — no installation, no account, and the document never leaves your device.
- Can it repair password-protected documents?
- No — encrypted files can’t be read without the password, by design. This tool handles structural corruption, not encryption.