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Word to Text and Text to Word Conversions
8 Jan 20251 minute to read
The Essential® DocIO converts the Word document into the Text file and vice versa. The following code example shows how to convert the Word document into text file.
//Load a template document.
WordDocument document = new WordDocument("Template.docx");
//Save the document as a text file.
document.save("WordToText.txt", FormatType.Txt);
//Close the document.
document.close();
The following code example shows how to convert a text file into a Word document.
//Load a text file.
WordDocument document = new WordDocument("Template.txt");
//Save the document as a text file.
document.save("TextToWord.docx", FormatType.Docx);
//Close the document.
document.close();
The following code example shows how to retrieve the Word document contents as a plain text.
//Load a template document.
WordDocument document = new WordDocument("Template.docx");
//Get the document text.
String text = document.getText();
//Create a new Word document.
WordDocument newdocument = new WordDocument();
//Add a new section.
IWSection section = newdocument.addSection();
//Add a new paragraph.
IWParagraph paragraph = section.addParagraph();
//Append the text to the paragraph.
paragraph.appendText(text);
//Save and close the document.
newdocument.save("Sample.docx");
newdocument.close();
document.close();