same image extraction problem

[Ashish Vegaraju]

hi,

i tried all the possibilities to extract image from a word doc...but i failed to do so...

any suggestions from u people will be greatly appreciated.

Ashish

[Scott Dunbar]

What have you done so far? I'd take a look at the Apache POI project for Java classes that are partially capable of reading M$/Office files.

[Ashish Vegaraju]

hi,

i have used the POI project and i can read text, styles,table data.. etc from a word file...but i cant extract embedded images from those files.

i have studied the jpg file format and i know that the starting image address is "0xd8" but in Word file the image is hidden somewhere....i cant locate that header address...infact i tried a small code for header comaprision....but there r many "0xd8"(s) in a word file...i m totally confused, if u know any other way to solve the problem then kindly give me some suggestions.

right now POI dont support image extraction from Word files.

Ashish.

[Guy Allard]

The JFIF/JPG should start with:

0xffd8 (not just 0xd8!)

and end with:

0xffd9

HTH, Guy

[Ashish Vegaraju]

hi,

the problem is not the start address...the problem is the way i m approaching the problem and i know this is a wrong way...even if i successfully find 0xffd8 as the start address of image in a M$ Word file...its not guarenteed that i'll find all the image data serially...or in a sequence...u can say this is the art of Microsoft, to complicate even the 2+2 calculation.

Ashish.