Reading a Doc file using Java

Hi by using a simple java IO we can’t read contents of a doc file.

Jakarta poi has some utilities to read contents of a file using its api.

Every line of the doc file is considered as a paragraph.

import java.io.FileInputStream;

import org.apache.poi.hwpf.HWPFDocument;

import org.apache.poi.hwpf.extractor.WordExtractor;

import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem;

public class ReadandWrite {

public static void readDocFile(String filePath) {

POIFSFileSystem fs = null;

try {

fs = new POIFSFileSystem(new FileInputStream(filePath));

HWPFDocument doc = new HWPFDocument(fs);

WordExtractor we = new WordExtractor(doc);

String[] paragraphs = we.getParagraphText();

System.out.println(“Word Document has ” + paragraphs.length+ ” paragraphs”);

for (int i = 0; i < paragraphs.length; i++) {

paragraphs[i] = paragraphs[i].replaceAll(“\\cM?”, “”);

System.out.println(paragraphs[i]);

}

} catch (Exception e) {

}

public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable {

readDocFile(“yourfile.doc”);

}

For this i used poi-3.0-FINAL.jar.

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