Read Word document line by line (Include Header and Footer)

Question

Hi All I have done word document comparison tool (windows application) using ASP.NET. I have used Microsoft word object library to read word document. It is working fine. When I started to do the project client wanted to compare documents text only I mean need not to compare formats Header and footer. So I easily did that using document.text property. Now client wants to compare even header and footers. I am unable to read header and footer in sequential manner. Anybody could help me in this regard. Note. I want to read document in following manner Read Header if document contain header Read paragraph contain text Read Footer Each page have to be read in above mentioned manner. I can easily read Header footer and document contains text alone. As I need to compare source document and destination document line by line and expose mismatched record in report format I need to read the word document line by line. Please help me Thanks and Regards Ramadurai Jayaraman

Candy Brown · Answer

Well the problem is that word document internally is not structured in that way you do not have first a header lines then a content lines then a footer lines. Also there are few header and footer types that your document can have (first even and default). Nevertheless try the following: var doc = DocumentModel .Load( Sample.docx ); foreach ( var section in doc.Sections) { HeaderFooter headerFooter; List string > texts; // Read first page header's text. headerFooter = section.HeadersFooters[ HeaderFooterType .HeaderFirst]; if (headerFooter != null ) texts.Add(headerFooter.Content.ToString()); // Read even pages header's text. headerFooter = section.HeadersFooters[ HeaderFooterType .HeaderEven]; if (headerFooter != null ) texts.Add(headerFooter.Content.ToString()); // Read default header's text. headerFooter = section.HeadersFooters[ HeaderFooterType .HeaderDefault]; if (headerFooter != null ) texts.Add(headerFooter.Content.ToString()); // Read section's text. texts.Add(section.Content.ToString()); // Read first page footer's text. headerFooter = section.HeadersFooters[ HeaderFooterType .FooterFirst]; if (headerFooter != null ) texts.Add(headerFooter.Content.ToString()); // Read even pages footer's text. headerFooter = section.HeadersFooters[ HeaderFooterType .FooterEven]; if (headerFooter != null ) texts.Add(headerFooter.Content.ToString()); // Read default footer's text. headerFooter = section.HeadersFooters[ HeaderFooterType .FooterDefault]; if (headerFooter != null ) texts.Add(headerFooter.Content.ToString()); } I hope this works for you I used the C# code with this Word component which has a really straightforward way of reading the Word documents in C# .