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ankitkhandelwal185
ankitkhandelwal185

Reputation: 1121

How to extract text from docx file with Nodejs

i want to extract text from docx file, i have tried using mammoth

var mammoth = require("mammoth");
mammoth.extractRawText({path: "./doc.docx"})
    .then(function(result){
        var text = result.value; // The raw text 

        //this prints all the data of docx file
        console.log(text);

        for (var i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
            //this prints all the data char by char in separate lines
            console.log(text[i]);
        }
        var messages = result.messages;
    })
    .done();

but the problem here is that in this for loop i want data line by line instead of char by char, please help me here or is there any other method that you know?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 18386

Answers (4)

Sergei Reutov
Sergei Reutov

Reputation: 26

Keep in mind, mammoth doesn't support extracting text from DocX Header and Footer (GitHub issue)

If you need to extract text from there as well, I can recommend using the word-extractor package (link).

Here is an example of usage:

const WordExtractor = require('word-extractor');

async function getTextFromBuffer(buffer) {
  const extractor = new WordExtractor();
  const document = await extractor.extract(buffer);
  const bodyText = document.getBody();
  const headerText = document.getHeaders({ includeFooters: false });
  const footerText = document.getFooters();
  return `${headerText}\n${bodyText}\n${footerText}`;
}

Upvotes: 0

sdgfsdh
sdgfsdh

Reputation: 37095

One method is to fetch the whole text and then split by '\n':

import superagent from 'superagent';
import mammoth from 'mammoth';

const url = 'http://www.ojk.ee/sites/default/files/respondus-docx-sample-file_0.docx';

const main = async () => {
  const response = await superagent.get(url)
    .parse(superagent.parse.image)
    .buffer();

  const buffer = response.body;

  const text = (await mammoth.extractRawText({ buffer })).value;
  const lines = text.split('\n');

  console.log(lines);
};

main().catch(error => console.error(error));

Upvotes: 4

Abhinaba
Abhinaba

Reputation: 424

You can use any-text

Usage is simeple:

var reader = require('any-text');

reader.getText(`path-to-file`).then(function (data) {
  console.log(data);
});

Upvotes: 2

Arrow
Arrow

Reputation: 163

    var mammoth = require("mammoth");
var path = require("path");

var filePath = path.join(__dirname,'./doc.docx');

mammoth.extractRawText({path: filePath})
    .then(function(result){
        var text = result.value; // The raw text

        //this prints all the data of docx file
        //console.log(text);
        console.log('------------------------------');
        var textLines = text.split ("\n");

        for (var i = 0; i < textLines.length; i++) {
            //this prints all the data in separate lines
            console.log(textLines[i]);
        }
        var messages = result.messages;
    })
    .done();

Upvotes: 0

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