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To Read Ms word (.doc/.docx)file through Apex

Hi,

 

Can you plaese give me an example or suggestion to Read Ms word (.doc/.docx)file through Apex.

Alexander_EAlexander_E
Facing the same problem. Would be great to get rid of layout things. We need to read the text out of an MS Word (.doc/.docx)file through Apex.
Anand SinghAnand Singh

If you try to upload document through Visualforce page (using browse button) and try to extract the content in apex controller, it may most probably fail because of the viewstate limit (if the document size is large).

Trick is to upload the document into Attachments (linked to some dummy record that can be delete later) and extract the Attachment's content into apex controller/class - containing the XML parsing logic (apex XML Parser can be utilized to parse the word document). 

To reduce the viewstate in apex controller -
a) Do not parse the entire word document, instead utilize TEXT.substring() method to grab the portion of document required for parsing.
b) Make sure to NULLIFY the variables (containing large text content from attachments) once their purpose is served.

Possible issue:

Word document may not be perfect XML as it may be missing closing tags or punctuations. To handle this issue, you need to develop logic that will rectify the XML (by adding closing tags and missing punctuation) BEFORE the text is submitted for parsing by XML Parser.

Hope this helps!!
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