Reading a Microsoft Word Document (.docx) using Telerik

This post explains how to read content from text form .docx files using Progress Telerik

Introduction

 

This is a sample class that reads Microsoft Word 2007 - 365 documents and returns the content.

 

Microsoft introduced a new document format with contained data in Office 2007. This means that .docx files are like a zip file.

The code below shows how to read the text from .docx documents. 

 

This technique uses Progress Telerik.

using System.IO;
using Telerik.WinForms.Documents.FormatProviders.OpenXml.Docx;
using Telerik.WinForms.Documents.FormatProviders.Txt;

namespace Telerik.WinForms.Documents
{
    public static class
    {
        public static string ReadDocxContent(string file)
        {
            var docxFormatProvider = new DocxFormatProvider();
            using var input = File.OpenRead(file);
            var document = docxFormatProvider.Import(input);
            var txtFormatProvider = new TxtFormatProvider();
            return txtFormatProvider.Export(document);
        }
    }
}

Just pass a document file with a full path and the function returns its content. 

var txt = ReadDocx.ReadDocxContent(@".\desktop\document1.docx");

This code works with .Net Framework 4.x too, with a small refactoring:

using System.IO;
using Telerik.WinForms.Documents.FormatProviders.OpenXml.Docx;
using Telerik.WinForms.Documents.FormatProviders.Txt;

namespace Telerik.WinForms.Documents
{
    public static class ReadDocx
    {
        public static string ReadDocxContent(string file)
        {
            var docxFormatProvider = new DocxFormatProvider();
            using (var input = File.OpenRead(file))
            {
                var document = docxFormatProvider.Import(input);
                var txtFormatProvider = new TxtFormatProvider();
                return txtFormatProvider.Export(document);
            }
        }
    }

Happy coding! 

 

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