Apache POI Extract Paragraph

To extract paragraph text, we use getParagraphs() method of XWPFDocument class. This method returns a list of all paragraphs of document which can be stored in a list variable and get by iterating loop.

Lets see an example in which we are extracting paragraph using a Java program.

Apache POI Extracting Paragraph Example

package poiexample;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.OPCPackage;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFDocument;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFParagraph;
public class ReadParagraphExample {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		 try(FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("Javatpoint.docx")) {
			 XWPFDocument doc    = new XWPFDocument(OPCPackage.open(fis));
			 java.util.List<XWPFParagraph> paragraphs =  doc.getParagraphs();
			 for (XWPFParagraph paragraph: paragraphs){
				 System.out.println(paragraph.getText());
			 }
		 }catch(Exception e) {
			 System.out.println(e);
		 }
	}
}

Input:

Output:

Apache POI (Poor Obfuscation Implementation) is a project design and developed by Apache Software
Foundation. It is a collection of pure Java libraries, used to read and write Microsoft office 
files such as Word, PowerPoint etc. The purpose was to design a cross-platform API that can 
manipulate various file formats of Microsoft Office and Open Office Documents.

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