Reading .docx in C++

Question

I\'m trying to create a program that reads a .docx file and posts it content to a blog/forum for personal use. I finally have figured out how to use libcurl to do (what I f

Answer 1

The easiest way is to use Word to do this. It has limitations on licensing.

The SO question Creating, opening and printing a word file from C++ has some good references.

Edit:

According to these questions/answers can unzip the Open XML file and process the XML file directly:

• How can I read a Word 2007 .docx file?

If you use .NET there are more (C#) questions to read:

• How to grab text from word (docx) document in C#?
• How to load MS Word document in C# (.NET)?
• How can I programatically use C# to append multiple DOCX files together?