Apache POI Extract Text

To extract the text from the word document, XWPFWordExtractor class provides a method getText(). This method gets all the text from the document.

It is useful method which can be used in Java program to read the data.

Lets see an example in which we are extracting text from a doc file.

Apache POI Extract Text Example

package poiexample;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.OPCPackage;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.extractor.XWPFWordExtractor;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFDocument;
public class ReadingText {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		 try(FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("Javatpoint.docx")) {
			 XWPFDocument file   = new XWPFDocument(OPCPackage.open(fis));
		     XWPFWordExtractor ext = new XWPFWordExtractor(file);
		     System.out.println(ext.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.

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