word-extractor

word-extractor

Read data from a Word document using node.js

Why use this module?

There are a fair number of npm components which can extract text from Word .doc files, but they all appear to require some external helper program, and involve either spawning a process or communicating with a persistent one. That raises the installation and deployment burden as well as the runtime one.

This module is intended to provide a much faster way of reading the next from a Word file, without leaving the node.js environment.

How do I use this module?

var WordExtractor = require("word-extractor");
var extractor = new WordExtractor();
var doc = extractor.extract("file.doc")
var body = doc.getBody();

The object returned from the extract() method is a document object, and provides several views onto different parts of the document contents.

Methods

WordExtractor#extract(file)

Main method to open a Word file and retrieve the data. Returns a Document.

Document#getBody()

Retrieves the content text from a Word document. This will handle UNICODE characters correctly, so if there are accented or non-Latin-1 characters present in the document, they'll show as is in the returned string.

More methods will be available in future releases.

License

Copyright (c) 2016. Stuart Watt.

Licensed under the MIT License.

Changelog

0.1.0 / 14th January 2016

• Initial release to npm