Extract required text from Word document using C#

Question

Can anyone tell me how to extract only required text from Word document using C#.

About Word document:

It contains some Simple text and Audio text and I want to Extract that text from word file and generate the Excel file.

Below storyboard Screen Shot-1 contains Simple text and Audio text and where you can see 2 Text color Blue and Black. Problem is to identify the Black color Text because it has some Simple Text and Audio Text and I want that Text into Excel in separate columns as displayed in Screen shot-2.

and i'm able to extract the text from Word document into Excel but problem is how can I identify Simple text and Audio text without changing the font style and color to generate Excel file.

Any help in this will be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Rohit Mehta · Answer

Hi Akshay Thank you for your reply but these links provided by you are not helpful for me actually i'm able to extract the text from word doc to excel but unable to differentiate the text and i have followed 2 approaches but these are not appropriate solution for me- 1. Add separate Bookmark as identifier for each Text so that we can identify and extract the text easily. 2. Change font style and colour of the text we want to extract. but these approaches are time taking and not a proper solution for me so if you have or any one can have another idea to identify the different text please suggest.

Ankur Bharata · Answer

Hi Rohit Since you want to extract text from the word (DOC) file based on color I think you might need to load the file as an image first. So first thing to do is to load or convert the word doc file to image. I found the following threads that might help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20326478/convert-word-file-pages-to-jpg-images-using-c-sharp http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24830027/issue-with-converting-doc-to-png After this you need to find the non-black colored text in the image and hide it. You need to create a region that contains only non-black colored pixels. I think this is applicable using Microsoft .NET graphics object. Also there might be some sdks (like leadtools) that can do all the above (loading DOC file find non-black colored text and then save the result as Excell etc.). I found the following link that might help: https://www.leadtools.com/help/leadtools/v19/dh/to/leadtools.topics.documents.converters~doxc.topics.documentconverters_using.html

Akshay Phadke · Answer

These links will help you http://www.e-iceblue.com/Tutorials/Spire.Doc/Spire.Doc-Program-Guide/Extract-Text-from-Word-in-C-and-VB.NET.html http://www.markwithall.com/programming/2013/01/04/word-to-text.html