InvalidFormatException

[vamshi gurudu]

Hi All,

I want to convert Doc, Docx and rtf files to text format.
Below is my code.

import java.io.*;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.extractor.XWPFWordExtractor;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFDocument;

public class DocToText {
public static void main(String[] args) {
File file = null;

try {
// Read the Doc/DOCx file
file = new File("E:\\Search.doc");
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file.getAbsolutePath());
XWPFDocument doc = new XWPFDocument(fis);
XWPFWordExtractor ex = new XWPFWordExtractor(doc);
String text = ex.getText();

//write the text in txt file
File fil = new File("E:\\New.txt");
Writer output = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(fil));
output.write(text);
output.close();
} catch (Exception exep) {
exep.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

For some files it is working properly, but some file i am getting the exception as
org.apache.poi.openxml4j.exceptions.InvalidFormatException: Package should contain a content type part [M1.13].

How to resolve the issue, any help.

Thanks.

[Greg Charles]

I've never used POI, but judging from the number of questions we get about it here, it must be pretty popular. Here's my process when faced with a cryptic error message:

1. Copy the whole text of the message into a Google search box.
2. Click on whichever result looks the most relevant.

In this case, I get: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.poi.devel/18439, which says:

POI does not support the Open Document Format (odt, ods, etc) files
irrespective of which application created them. If you are looking for a
Java api that will support this type of file then you need to use the
ODFToolkit - http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/

So, it looks to me like you've got an Open Office spreadsheet there and not an MS Excel one. Is that possible?

[Rob Spoor]

I don't think it's a ODT file, unless the extension is completely wrong.

Vamshi, what happens if you switch from org.apache.poi.xwpf.extractor.XWPFWordExtractor and org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFDocument to org.apache.poi.hwpf.extractor.WordExtractor and org.apache.poi.hwpf.HWPFDocument? Perhaps the document isn't a Word 2007/2010 document but comes from a previous version.

[vamshi gurudu]

Thanks for replies.

I had solved the problem
Below is the sample code.

For DOC : org.apache.poi.hwpf.extractor.WordExtractor.WordExtractor(InputStream is) if its throw exception then i am using org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFDocument.XWPFDocument(InputStream is)

For DOCX : org.apache.poi.xwpf.extractor.XWPFWordExtractor.XWPFWordExtractor

For rtf : javax.swing.text.rtf.RTFEditorKit.RTFEditorKit()

all this will convert to text.

Thanks Rob Spoor your reply gave me to do some experiment.

Thanks both of you for giving such a good information.

[Rob Spoor]

You're welcome.