MSWordDoc::Extractor

Extract text contents from Microsoft Word Document

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'msworddoc-extractor', :git =>
  'git://github.com/dayflower/msworddoc-extractor.git'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Usage

require 'msworddoc-extractor'

doc = MSWordDoc::Extractor.load('sample.doc')
puts doc.contents   # doc is MSWordDoc::Essence
# You have to close document explicitly
doc.close()

# Or call load() with block argument (recommended way)
MSWordDoc::Extractor.load('sample.doc') do |doc|
  puts doc.header
end

Properties of MSWordDoc::Essence

• document
• header
• footnote
• macro
• annotation
• endnote
• textbox
• header_textbox
• whole_contents

Limitations

Only supports Microsoft Word binary document.
Does not support Microsoft Word XML document (.docx).

This module does not handle PAP (PAragraph Properties) and CHP (CHaracter Properties), that define paragraphs and characters style. Those styling information are required to determine functionalities of some of special characters (such as row mark, footnote reference, and etc), but are just ignored in the module, so extracted text will be inaccurate.

Also this module does not handle summary information stream in Word file.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request