How to open and manipulate Word document/template in Java?

Question

I need to open a .doc/.dot/.docx/.dotx (I\'m not picky, I just want it to work) document, parse it for placeholders (or something similar), put my own data, an

Answer 1

I ended up relying on Apache Poi 3.12 and processing paragraphs (separately extracting paragraphs also from tables, headers/footers, and footnotes, as such paragraphs aren't returned by XWPFDocument.getParagraphs() ).

The processing code (~100 lines) and unit tests are here on github.