How to read MS word file(*.doc/docx).

I have to import data from MS word file and consider the imported file as 'string' but in some case, their are many pictures, images, table etc have into the file. Is it possible to do that in MATLAB or I could have to switch to any other language? Thank YOU

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

The issue is not matlab. You'll have to go through exactly the same difficulties whichever language you use. The issue is more that a Word document is not a simple string. You can certainly extract the various sections of text from a word document in any language but you'll have to work for it.

All the functions to navigate a Word document are documented on MSDN. The most important object for you is the Document object.

This could be a start:

word = actxserver('Word.Application');
wdoc = word.Documents.Open('C:\somewhere\somefile.docx');
%wdoc is the Document object which you can query and navigate.
sometext = wdoc.Content.Text;

[Gregory]

This worked perfectly. Thank you.

[Tobias Huth]

Thanks for the help!

One should not forget to close the objects:

      wdoc.Close; % close document
      word.Quit;  % end application
      

Greetings,

Tobias

[Ioonut]

do you know how to extract the pictures from a doc file that has for example 10 pictures inserted?

I understood from MSDN that wdoc.InlineShapes should contain this,but I dont know how I could get a variable like 'picture' or how to index it

picture = wdoc.something(index)