Extract text from MS Word file using OOo API

[shekhar.kotekar]

Hi,

I would like to know whether is it possible to use Open Office API to extract text and other information from MS word document.

Till now I have used MS Offfice Interop API (its too slow as it COM based), and also Apache POI (it has poor documentation, no support, no forums) but they have their disadvantages so I was thinking about using Open Office API.

Please enlighten !!!!

[rudolfo]

Till now I have used MS Offfice Interop API (its too slow as it COM based)

OpenOffice has to convert MS Word documents first into its internal XML or DOM tree format before it can do anything with it. If COM automation is too slow for you, I doubt that OOo would be fast enough for you.
The key point with OpenOffice is that is is build around an open xml format. If the Office Suite itself is to slow for you, you can always code your own XML application to manipulate the documents. But of course this approach to get around performance issues can only be used for documents that are already in the (ODF) xml format.

[shekhar.kotekar]

@rudolfo,

Thanks a lot for your inputs.