Read/Write Word Document in .Net Core Web Api

Hiren Bhudrani

I am working on a Web Api project build with .Net Core framework. I need to read a word document, copy its content and write it to another word file. I searched a lot for word document reading and writing in .Net Core Api project but had no luck.

Please suggest me a library or tool which works in .Net Core Api project.

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Murtuza Travadi9y ago
for solution check this

https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/487
Rahul Prasad9y ago
Using spire.doc, you can copy content from one Word document to another by following code snippet.
//load source file
Document sourceDoc = new Document("source.docx");
//load target file
Document destinationDoc = new Document("target.docx");

// traverse each Section and each DocumentObject in source file
foreach (Section sec in sourceDoc.Sections)
{
    foreach (DocumentObject obj in sec.Body.ChildObjects)
    {
        //insert the copies of each DocumentObject to the target file
        destinationDoc.Sections[0].Body.ChildObjects.Add(obj.Clone());
    }
}

//save to the target file
destinationDoc.SaveToFile("target.docx");
Murtuza Travadi9y ago
yes guys i facing same issue if you found any solution then plz let me know...
Hiren Bhudrani9y ago
@Salman,
I checked those links but they are using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word, which is not supported in .Net Core. So not useful.
Salman Beg9y ago
Hi.
Please follow this aticle,

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/reading-a-word-document-using-C-Sharp/
https://www.mindstick.com/Articles/629/read-microsoft-word-document-file-by-using-c-sharp
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6b9478cs.aspx

thanks.