CodeZapper

CodeZapper is a set of Word macros to clean up the Word rogue codes. This is how the programmer, David Turner, describes it:

What is “CodeZapper”?

"CodeZapper" is a set of Word macros (programs written in VBA to automate operations in applications) designed to “clean up” Word files before being imported into a translation environment program such as Deja Vu DVX, memoQ, SDL Trados Studio, TagEditor, Swordfish, OmegaT, etc.

Word documents are often strewn with junk or “rogue” tags (so-called “smart tags”, language tags, track changes tags, soft hyphenations, scaling and spacing changes, redundant bookmarks, etc.).
This tagged information shows up in the DVX or MemoQ grid as spurious {1}codes{2} around, or even in the mid{3}dle of, words, making sentences difficult to read and translate and generally negating many of the productivity benefits of the program.

OCR’d files or files converted from PDF are even worse.

CodeZapper tries to remove as many of these tags as possible while retaining formatting and layout. It also contains a number of other macros which may be useful before and after importing files into DVX or MQ (temporarily transferring bulky images (photos, etc.) out of a file, to speed up import, and then back in the right place after translation, moving footnotes to a table at the end of the document and back after translation, for example).

Is it freeware?

No. To help ensure its continued availability and improvement, there is now a one-time, 20 euro charge for the program. This will entitle you to free future upgrades.

Is it risk free?

Although it’s been fairly extensively tested on a range of files, you should obviously only use it on a backup copy of your files and at your own risk.

I highly recommend it.