Reading Microsoft Word documents in plain text (DOC, DOCX) in Java

Question

I am looking for something in Java to read in Word documents to process their text. All I need is text, nothing out of the ordinary. I know about Apache POI, but it does not include DOCX support right now, is there something there?

Answer 1

If you do not need formatting information, images, and all other bizarre things, then the task is much simpler. In total there will be from 5 to 10 lines of code.

• DOCX zip . , "document.xml". ZipInputStream . ( zip docx !)
• SAX node body/p/r/t - voila, !

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Answer 2

googling OpenXML4J. . , , - .

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Answer 3

Try apache poi - it can handle doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx.

Another production-level solution is OpenOffice in headless mode, which can even be used in a server-side script.

Answer 4

You can try docx4j; see http://dev.plutext.org/svn/docx4j/trunk/docx4j/src/main/java/org/docx4j/TextUtils.java