How to Read data from MS-Word and display in Text box

If you want to extract the actual text from the document file, you might need to use Office Automation (MS Word COM interfaces) at the server side. Here's a blog that discusses this:
http://emalvass.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-use-office-2007-automation-in.html

But if you are trying to create an online document viewer, you can use HTML5 controls to view your documents as images. Note that since loading documents is not natively supported by web browsers in general, you might need to use WCF or REST services to load the documents on server side, and then pass the loaded images back to the client for display.

This forum post shows an example for a service-based online document viewer:
http://support.leadtools.com/CS/forums/44272/ShowPost.aspx

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Lucas Hammonds11y ago
If you want to extract the actual text from the document file, you might need to use Office Automation (MS Word COM interfaces) at the server side. Here's a blog that discusses this:
http://emalvass.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-use-office-2007-automation-in.html

But if you are trying to create an online document viewer, you can use HTML5 controls to view your documents as images. Note that since loading documents is not natively supported by web browsers in general, you might need to use WCF or REST services to load the documents on server side, and then pass the loaded images back to the client for display.

This forum post shows an example for a service-based online document viewer:
http://support.leadtools.com/CS/forums/44272/ShowPost.aspx