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convert word documents programmatically

Asked by: davidlars99

Hi,

does anybody know what needs to be done to convert word documents programmatically to html?

Thanks

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by: bruintjePosted on 2006-03-03 at 15:08:16ID: 16099513

Hello davidlars99,
you could do this using automation but a prerequisite is that Word should be installed or do you need this without word installed?
bruintje

 

by: existenz2Posted on 2006-03-03 at 15:12:26ID: 16099547

You can do that the following way:

using System;
using System.Reflection;
using Word;

namespace WordConsole
{
      /// <summary>
      /// Summary description for WordConsole.
      /// </summary>
      class WordConsole
      {
            /// <summary>
            /// The main entry point for the application.
            /// </summary>
            [STAThread]
            static void Main(string[] args)
            {
                  Application app=new Application();
                  app.Visible=false;
                  Object o=Missing.Value;
                  object docFile= args[0];
                  _Document doc=app.Documents.Open(ref docFile,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref
                        o);
                  object fileName= args[1];
                  object format=8;//Html
                  doc.SaveAs(ref fileName,ref format,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o,ref o);
                  object t=true;
                  app.Quit(ref t,ref o,ref o);
            }
      }
}

 

by: existenz2Posted on 2006-03-03 at 15:13:39ID: 16099559

Comments:

You will need Office installed for this and the Office 11 Word (Office 2003) reference. To get it to work with Office 2000, you just have to remove a few "ref o" parameters if I remember correctly.

 

by: davidlars99Posted on 2006-03-03 at 15:38:12ID: 16099705

are u sure it does what it suppose to do?

object format=8;//Html

what does it do? looks like you just creating a variable to hold just an integer value

 

by: davidlars99Posted on 2006-03-03 at 15:39:28ID: 16099715

thankjs anyways existenz2, I really don't do this that way, I looking for a way to do this without word installed

 

by: existenz2Posted on 2006-03-03 at 15:40:22ID: 16099724

Yes, you are correct. In Word you can select "Save as" with different values. 8 is supposed to be "Save as HTML". I did it this way, because this is pretty common for code on the internet when using Office interoperability.

 

by: davidlars99Posted on 2006-03-03 at 15:40:35ID: 16099725

> what does it do? looks like you just creating a variable to hold just an integer value

sorry I see it now  :)

 

by: existenz2Posted on 2006-03-03 at 15:42:19ID: 16099735

@davidlars99 :

Then I can be short: Without Word, it won't work at this moment in a way you would want to. Maybe with Office 2005 it will be better, since that will have a new Word document structure, but not with documents made in 2003 and older.

 

by: athapaPosted on 2006-03-03 at 19:57:35ID: 16101432

Stallent makes HTML export. So does Verity (now Autonomy). Both don't require word to be installed. They can actually convert about 300+ file types. If price is the issue and thats why word is not installed then you should forget about both. They are quiet expensive. If word is not installed for other reason and you want a scalable (even portable to other platform) then that would be the route.

If you want other ways then you could learn about compound file. There are already few .net classes out there which can read compound files. You could then read data streams from word document and generate html.

Another possibility would be to use iFilter. I've seen few incompleted code in the web on how to use iFilter in .net to read word documents. I think Lucene uses that method too.

AT

 

by: davidlars99Posted on 2006-03-04 at 14:50:29ID: 16105314

IFilter looks cool, but haven't been able to find *any* sample code  :(

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/indexsrv/html/ixrefint_9sfm.asp

why is this type of programming hidden deep upder..?

 

by: athapaPosted on 2006-03-05 at 08:23:03ID: 16108049

http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/acencini/articles/716.aspx

See if that helps.

BTW, another method I've used in similiar situation is to have a server which will use various driver such as Lead ePrint to print/convert to desired format.

 

by: davidlars99Posted on 2006-03-05 at 14:16:05ID: 16109712

hey man, that is so cool!

I had to do some modifications to the code, it won't work otherwise without throwing some annoying errors

 

by: daluuPosted on 2006-03-06 at 17:25:44ID: 16120316

On a side note: if they were Rich Text Format (RTF) files, there's a class library you can use. The sample project includes an RTF to HTML class (TraductorRtf.cs). Only bad part is the code & comments are in Spanish.

NRTFTree - A class library for RTF processing in C#
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/nrtftree.asp

 

by: davidlars99Posted on 2006-04-19 at 06:29:19ID: 16487382

thank you guy!

 

by: CAWhitePosted on 2007-10-15 at 13:57:27ID: 20081464

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