Dear Sirs, is there any function or method to read a WPD file or word file which contains sequence of numbers in Matlab? I need to read the numbers as it is as a matrix of rows and columns.

Dear Sirs, is there any function or method to read a WPD file or word file which contains sequence of numbers in Matlab? I need to read the numbers as it is as a matrix of rows and columns.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

There is a third party C library available, libwpd which you could build and use loadlib() and calllib() to call from MATLAB.

If you are using MS Windows and you have WordPerfect installed, you may be able to use an Active-X object to read the data.

Answer 2

[Thirunavukkarasu]

Dear sirs, there is another solution, the wpd file can be read as a text file, as it contains only numbers it can be arranged in required matrix format. Further the string to number conversion makes the job easy... thank you so much for the immediate response sir

[Walter Roberson]

wpd files do not contain only numbers.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/271144/WPMac4FileFormat.pdf

http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/wp42ff.txt