Read the .doc file

[Megan James]

Could any one give some sample code to read the .doc (MS word ) file with the font style, family and size usi ng java?.

[Ulf Dittmer]

The Apache POI library can do this, in particular its HWPF module. From an HWPFDocument object you can get CharacterRun objects that encapsulate the text and its formatting. Something like:

InputStream fis = new FileInputStream(myFileName);
POIFSFileSystem fs = new POIFSFileSystem(fis);
HWPFDocument doc = new HWPFDocument(fs);

Range range = doc.getRange();

for (int i=0; i<range.numCharacterRuns(); i++) {
	CharacterRun run = range.getCharacterRun(i);
	System.out.println("character run "+(i+1));
	System.out.println(run.text());
	// ... retrieve text styling information here ...
}

[Megan James]

Thanks for your reply sir. I tried to downloaded the jar file , but i got only the source code its also not compiled properly, It has some file as missing in that. could you provide the url for downloaded the jar file of open source or how can i get the complete source code.could you help me to proceed future.

[Ulf Dittmer]

On the POI site, follow the "Download" link. You may need to click through "release" and "bin" directories to get to the correct file. It should be called poi-bin-3.2-FINAL-20081019.zip, and it contains the poi-scratchpad-3.2.jar and poi-3.2.jar files that you need to add to your classpath.

What do you mean by "it's not compiled properly" - do you mean the code I posted? You need to add import statements, and of course you must have the POI jar files in your classpath.

[Megan James]

Thanks for your comments. I got the jar file and set class path.

When running the above code it shows the following error . Kindly help me to proceed future.

org.apache.poi.hpsf.IllegalPropertySetDataException: The property set claims to have a size of 16 bytes. However, it exceeds 16 bytes.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Which statement is causing this exception? Does Word have any problems with this file?

[Megan James]

The above problem was caused because of some problem in my word format. I solved it. Thanks for your Help.