Can I extract tables from Word documents and convert them to html strings?

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1

Hi all,

I would like to extract tables from Word documents and convert them to html. Is there any way to convert for example a Table object into a html string?

Thanks in advance,

Alan

2

Hello

Thanks for your request. Yes of course, you can do it using Aspose.Words. Please try using the following code to achieve what you need:

Document doc = new Document("C:\\Temp\\in.doc");
// Create a clone of the document
Document tempDoc = doc.deepClone();
java.util.List tables = Arrays.asList(tempDoc.getChildNodes(NodeType.TABLE, true).toArray());
// Clear tempDoc
tempDoc.getSections().clear();
tempDoc.ensureMinimum();
for (int i = 0; i <tables.size(); i++)
{
    Table docTable = (Table) tables.get(i);
    Table docTableCopy = (Table) docTable.deepClone(true);
    // Insert table into document
    tempDoc.getFirstSection().getBody().insertAfter(docTableCopy, tempDoc.getFirstSection().getBody().getFirstParagraph());
    // Insert paragraph between tables
    tempDoc.getFirstSection().getBody().insertAfter(new Paragraph(tempDoc), tempDoc.getFirstSection().getBody().getFirstParagraph());
}
tempDoc.save("C:\\Temp\\outTables.html");

Best regards,

3

Thank you very much! I’ve tried the code and it works.

However, this means that I always have to call the “save” method, which means that I need to first store the Table on the hard drive. Is there any way to get a html String representation directly?

Thanks in advance,

Alan

4

Hello

Thank you for additional information. You can save your document to Stream and then to string. Please see the following code:

OutputStream htmlStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
tempDoc.save(htmlStream, SaveFormat.HTML);
String strHtml = htmlStream.toString();
strHtml = strHtml.substring(strHtml.indexOf("<"));
System.out.print(strHtml);

Best regards,

5

Thank you very much!