How to access OpenXML content by page number?

Question

Using OpenXML, can I read the document content by page number?

wordDocument.MainDocumentPart.Document.Body gives content of full document.

Answer 1

This is how I ended up doing it.

  public void OpenWordprocessingDocumentReadonly()
        {
            string filepath = @"C:\...\test.docx";
            // Open a WordprocessingDocument based on a filepath.
            Dictionary pageviseContent = new Dictionary();
            int pageCount = 0;
            using (WordprocessingDocument wordDocument =
                WordprocessingDocument.Open(filepath, false))
            {
                // Assign a reference to the existing document body.  
                Body body = wordDocument.MainDocumentPart.Document.Body;
                if (wordDocument.ExtendedFilePropertiesPart.Properties.Pages.Text != null)
                {
                    pageCount = Convert.ToInt32(wordDocument.ExtendedFilePropertiesPart.Properties.Pages.Text);
                }
                int i = 1;
                StringBuilder pageContentBuilder = new StringBuilder();
                foreach (var element in body.ChildElements)
                {
                    if (element.InnerXml.IndexOf("", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) < 0)
                    {
                        pageContentBuilder.Append(element.InnerText);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        pageviseContent.Add(i, pageContentBuilder.ToString());
                        i++;
                        pageContentBuilder = new StringBuilder();
                    }
                    if (body.LastChild == element && pageContentBuilder.Length > 0)
                    {
                        pageviseContent.Add(i, pageContentBuilder.ToString());
                    }
                }
            }
        }

Downside: This wont work in all scenarios. This will work only when you have a page break, but if you have text extended from page 1 to page 2, there is no identifier to know you are in page two.