Apple`s "AppleWorks File Repair Utility" is a drag-and-drop repair program for AppleWorks documents, but if you try to drop a large number of documents on it at once, it freezes.
AWFilter is a free and easy to use front end that overcomes this limitation. Take your folder of damaged AppleWorks documents, drop it onto AWFilter, and AWFilter will feed the files into AppleWorks File Repair Utility, one by one. A
WFilter has been successfully tested with a folder of 8,082 documents.