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Extract from MS Word without Word installed

I need to extract from MS Word documents without MS Word installed, any ideas?

Will consider third party components.

Thanks

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GrahamSkan

Microsoft have a free Word viewer:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=95E24C87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF&displaylang=en

TotalIQ

ASKER

But I don't think you can interact with the free word viewer in code, unless you know differently?

GrahamSkan

The PDF converter also understands the Word format.

TotalIQ

ASKER

Which PDF converter?

TotalIQ

ASKER

I want to open the word document and extract all the text, then do something with that text.

GrahamSkan

I meant the PDF writer from Adobe.

However according to the page that I indicated, Microsoft's Word viewer can be used to copy text to other applications.

Hit_MN

You could try this WordOCX:

http://ic.net/~kusluski/

HTH

TotalIQ

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There must be a way to do this, I cant believe it is so difficult to convert MS Word documents to HTML or TEXT.

Is there anyway to maybe open the file in a text stream within vb and clean out the MS markup?

Somebody must have done this before, I am happy to pay anyone for a solution.

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TotalIQ

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We have Word, but the application we are building will be installed on servers that dont have Word nor do our clients want to pay for Word for the unattended process that our application performs.

I will take a look at the openoffice idea, ideally we want a component or someway to integrate without the use of command line executing.