Read doc file in java using poi

 

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package com.howto;   import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.IOException;   import org.apache.poi.hwpf.HWPFDocument;   /* * Here we will learn how to read a Doc file */ public class ReadDocFile {   public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException { /* * Create input stream of the doc file - Provide exact path of the doc * file to read */ FileInputStream fistream = new FileInputStream( "File_Path"); HWPFDocument document = new HWPFDocument(fistream);   System.out.println("Length of docment is :" + document.characterLength());   System.out.println(document.getText());   System.out.println(document.getDocumentText());   }   }

 

Here we will use POI open source project to read windows doc file. PoI Jar will be required that can be downloaded from apache website.