Reading .doc file without launching MSWord

Question

I\'m trying to open .doc file and read its content. But i can\'t find any way how to do this without launching MSWord.

Now I have following code:

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Answer 1

Add the Namespace using Add Reference-->Browse-->Code7248.word_reader.dll

Download dll from the given URL :

sourceforge.net/p/word-reader/wiki/Home

(A simple .NET Library compatible with .NET 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0 for C#. It can currently extract only the raw text from a .doc or .docx file.)

The Sample Code is in simple Console in C#:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
//add extra namespaces
using Code7248.word_reader;


namespace testWordRead
{
    class Program
    {
        private void readFileContent(string path)
        {
            TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor(path);
            string text = extractor.ExtractText();
            Console.WriteLine(text);
        }
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Program cs = new Program();
            string path = "D:\Test\testdoc1.docx";
            cs.readFileContent(path);
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

It is working fine.