read microsoft word document in java

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is there a simple way of reading a microsoft word document in java without using Apache POI package?

Or what are other alternative to achieving the same without using Apache POI package?

What do you mean by "reading"? Word documents from recent versions of MS Office are zip-compatible packages containing XML documents corresponding to the text-based content of the document - you can read those using Java's ZIP and XML libraries ... — alexbrn, Jun 17 '11 at 09:05
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7731948/java-library-for-reading-word-documents — , Mar 23 '17 at 14:18
Here is a good link: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6383473/read-microsoft-word-document-in-java](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6383473/read-microsoft-word-document-in-java) — , Mar 23 '17 at 14:19

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 17 '11 at 09:23

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Using Java to Crack Office 2007 might help.

answered Jun 17 '11 at 09:23

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Igor Konoplyanko · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-23T15:23:36.607

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There is a commercial alternative which is pretty easy-to-use but commercial - Aspose

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answered Jun 17 '11 at 08:59

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 17 '11 at 09:01

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java docx ? http://www.javadocx.com/ it's not much for reading, but for generating dynamic output.

answered Jun 17 '11 at 09:01

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Does that pull from a docx file too? – cwallenpoole Jun 17 '11 at 09:03
yeah. docx is an archive, if you extract it you can see many files, and somewhere will be an xml .. I didn't used it, just read a little about it. sorry – Cosmin Cosmin Jun 17 '11 at 09:09
Oh, I've dug deep into docx files before, I was just wondering if that library could read them in addition to writing them. – cwallenpoole Jun 17 '11 at 09:17

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 17 '11 at 09:02

Sort of. If it is a WordML file, you can unzip it and then manually extract the data from the XML files inside, but trust me, it is not a pleasant process. When we tried to do it at my company we had hoped to be able to leverage some of the OOo libraries to clean up the documents and, well, it didn't work too well.

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