Java Apache POI read Word (.doc) file and get named styles used

Question

I am trying to read a Microsoft Word 2003 Document (.doc) using poi-scratchpad-3.8 (HWPF). I need to either read the file word by word, or character by character. Either way i

Answer 1

I would suggest that you take a look at the sourcecode to WordExtractor from Apache Tika, as it's a great example of getting text and styling from a Word document using Apache POI

Based on what you did and didn't say in your question, I suspect you're looking for something a little like this:

    Range r = document.getRange();
    for(int i=0; ip.getStyleIndex()) {
          StyleDescription style =
               document.getStyleSheet().getStyleDescription(p.getStyleIndex());
          String styleName = style.getName();
          System.out.println(styleName + " -> " + text);
       }
       else {
          // Text has an unknown or invalid style
       }
    }

For anything more advanced, take a look at the WordExtractor sourcecode and see what else you can do with this sort of thing!