Recovery can refer to:

• The process of recovering data
• The process of recovering from a Mental illness
• The change of the microstructure in polycrystalline materials: Recovery (metallurgy)
• The Star Wars e-book, Recovery (novel)
• Recovering a spacecraft from a routine, minor, serious, or catastrophic anomaly
• Repossession
• The Christian recovery process
• The finding and reporting of a ringed bird — see bird ringing

recovery of documents is a equitable doctrine in which the courts of chancery produce the documents which were in possession of defendant while in common law legal system common law courts had not such powers.