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Rubes_sw

Anyone any ideas on how to get the source, text etc from a Word Document

instead of getting:

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I would like to get the entire contents, i know other editing programs can do it without have the program eg. Word installed. Is there anyway to do this via, api, dll, vds?

Nathan

Serge · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:42 pm Post subject:

have you thought of using string.dll? it will enable you to remove just about everything that is not alphanumeric and then be left with just plain text Very Happy

serge

henrywood · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 12:28 am Post subject:

Assuming that Gadget's COM functionality is actually complete, I think you may use it to access the COM interfaced exposed by Word

At least I managed to do so in PHP once (also by using COM)

Rubes_sw · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:48 am Post subject:

Dreads string.dll can load a MS Word Document but only gives you:

ÐÏà¡±á and the rest of the document is not loaded.

I have also tried tommys VDSLIST, VDSOBJ

Nathan

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Maybe using either the vdsbrowser extension or vdssurfx load the word document in there and try to copy the text from there?

Rubes_sw · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:10 pm Post subject:

Tried that Marty, but it wants to download it if you do not have word installed !

Nathan

henrywood · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:11 pm Post subject:

Oops !

Using the COM interface exposed by Word of course requires Word to be locally installed, so I guess that my suggestion about using COM is not feasible, judging by the subject of the post

Henrik

vdsalchemist · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:12 am Post subject:

Hi All,
You do not need to have MS Word to read a Word *.doc file. All document files are actually a structured storage files. They all use the IStorage and IStream interfaces to store data in the file. Take a look at the StgCreateDocfile and StgOpenStorage win32 API functions at http://msdn.microsoft.com Sorry I can't help any more than this since this is the subject of a DSU that I will be building for my GadgetX.dll

arcray · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:44 pm Post subject:

An easier solution is to use WordView from Microsoft. It allows you to view Word documents without requiring the Word application. No doubt you'll then be able to extract the /text/ from that.

Do a search for wdviewer.exe on Microsoft's site

Rubes_sw · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:53 pm Post subject:

Hi Accray

I do not wish to use word viewer for the following two reasons:

The overhead is 11.7Mb

and it has to be installed on the users system

All i am looking to do is get the contents of a word document into a vds var.

Nathan

Aslan · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:12 pm Post subject:

What do you want to do with the contents?

Do you need to retain any graphics or visable table lines?

If it's just the text you need, vdsobj.dll can load a word doc and extract the text.

Rubes_sw · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:24 pm Post subject:

Tried that,

it loads the doc file but only displasys:

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I really need this functionality, so if someone can compile a dsu, dll, code i would be forever gratful and i will give them a free copy of Link Spider, GraFX, Pixy Professional, JavaKING and another two programs i will release soon.

Nathan

Aslan · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:54 pm Post subject:

Since WORDPAD is on all Windows Computers

This might help for now:

Dr. Dread · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:36 am Post subject:

Why not do a search for "Word to text converter" on Google or something like that?

There are command-line tools out there....

Greetz
Dread

Rubes_sw · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:49 am Post subject:

Also tried google, shareware sites etc.

I can't find any freeware command line tools to convert doc to txt, cheapest is $30 and dearest was $540 for one license.

I would be willing to pay $50 for a vds wrapper, dll, dsu package that can do it !

Nathan Smile