Recover original Office media
Recover original DOCX, PPTX and XLSX media with document stories, slide shapes and worksheet drawing anchors.
- 1Add input
- 2Review and run
- 3Get your result
Tool input and files are processed in this browser without being uploaded.
Before you start
Download original image, audio and video bytes in a ZIP with complete SHA256 and usage reports. Word uses stories and logical paragraphs, PowerPoint uses actual slide order and shapes, and Excel uses worksheet names and cell anchors. Other parts retain precise part/XML context; Word page numbers are not inferred.
How to use this tool
- Choose an Office package.
- Inspect media counts and full report usage locations.
- Download original media ZIP and JSON/CSV.
Supported inputs and limits
One ordinary DOCX/PPTX/XLSX up to 30 MiB; 80 MiB expanded, 10,000 entries, 1,000 media assets and 20,000 references; total XML 20 MiB and 1,000,000 nodes.
Legacy DOC/PPT/XLS, OLE, macros, encryption and signed packages are unsupported. Media and input code are never executed; external URLs are never fetched. External reports strip credentials, queries and fragments. Empty media produces a valid zero-asset report.
OOXML transitional namespaces; Excel ordinary worksheets are supported, chartsheets are unsupported. Complete JSON/CSV each20 MiB; combined output100 MiB limit.
Worked example
Example input
The same PNG appears in Word body paragraphs2/3 and a header.
Example options
{}Example output
One PNG with three actual usages; package thumbnails are reported separately.
When something does not work
Export ordinary OOXML, correct missing relationship targets or ZIP corruption, and reduce expanded size before retrying.
Frequently asked questions
Are media assets re-encoded?
No. Outputs retain actual package bytes with original SHA256. Office may already have compressed assets during saving; previously lost data cannot be reconstructed.
Documentation & further reading
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