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h3n
h3n

Reputation: 5248

Convert MS Word Content to HTML

I need to make an upload tool where in the Word document will be converted to HTML format for saving to database. Any idea?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 695

Answers (3)

JimYuill
JimYuill

Reputation: 76

I know this is an old post, but I just wrote an app that converts a Word-doc to a usable web-page. The app provides some of the requirements in the OP.

The app is WordWebNav (WWN). It's free and open-source.

WWN provides a Word VBA program that converts Word-docs to Word-HTML.

WWN also provides a Python program that converts the Word-HTML to a usable web-page:

  • It adds missing features to the Word-HTML, e.g., a navigation pane.
  • And, WWN fixes some common bugs in Word's HTML, e.g., mis-formatted lists, and overly-wide paragraphs.

The Python program uses a CLI, and it can be called externally.

Upvotes: 1

ChrisW
ChrisW

Reputation: 56123

I've written one (see the Doc to HTML Converter).

To implement it, I downloaded the PIAs for Word, which let me open a document using Word, and control the format in which Word then re-saves the document.

Alternatively (instead of doing it yourself) there are tools like mine (and others, more famous) which you can use (some of which don't even use Word).

Upvotes: 2

Chris Laplante
Chris Laplante

Reputation: 29668

If this is a client application and you have access to Word, why not automate Word? Word can save in HTML (although you will probably have to clean the HTML up a bit). However, I will warn you that this is not very portable; whoever is going to use application will need to have the same version of Word you developed it with.

Upvotes: 0

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