[Solved] Extracting Docx-file with Java

[balasahu]

I'm trying to extract the contents of a Docx-file with Java. The new Docx-files are based on the Office Open XML, which is a zipped XML-based file format. So when I just rename my document from document.docx to document.zip, I'm able to see the contents:



Some of those extracted files need to be processed. But that would be another question.

Is it possible to directly access those contents, without explicitly renaming it into a zip-file?

[robleyd]

Have you tried unzipping the docx file by passing the filename as an argument to your decompression software?

It works for me on Linux:

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bash-4.3$ ls
AGM2013.docx  ebooks
bash-4.3$ unzip AGM2013.docx
Archive:  AGM2013.docx
  inflating: [Content_Types].xml     
  inflating: _rels/.rels             
  inflating: word/_rels/document.xml.rels  
  inflating: word/document.xml       
  inflating: word/theme/theme1.xml   
  inflating: word/settings.xml       
  inflating: word/fontTable.xml      
  inflating: word/webSettings.xml    
  inflating: docProps/app.xml        
  inflating: docProps/core.xml       
  inflating: word/styles.xml