How to read .doc file in SD card in Android?

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I have a .doc file saved on my sdcard. I need to read the content of .doc file and show it in a TextView.

Can anyone please tell me how to do this?

i suggest you to use apache poi. you can convert the word into html and render it http://poi.apache.org/ — Pramod J George, Oct 10 '12 at 10:12
You can use **jOpenDocument**. You can refer these links: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7790503/how-to-read-write-doc-and-excel-file-in-android http://www.jopendocument.org/ — kittu88, Oct 10 '12 at 10:06
Here is a code to display .doc extension files exists in SDCard [code to display .pdf,.text,.DOC,.DOCX,.doc extension files exists in SDCard ](http://pavantilak.blogspot.in/2012/02/code-to-display-pdftextdocdocxdoc.html) Refer this link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12816281/how-to-read-doc-and-excel-file-in-android hope it will help you... — Priyank Patel, Oct 10 '12 at 10:11

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 10 '12 at 10:17

public void onCreate(Bundle b){
     super.onCreate(b);
      setContentView(R.layout.main);
      String extPath = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + File.Separator;
    InputStream inputStream = assetManager.open(extPath + "file.doc");
    String text = loadFile(inputStream); 
    TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.txtv);
    tv.setText(text);



}



public String loadFile(InputStream inputStream){
 ByteArrayOutputStream b = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
 byte[] bytes = new byte[4096];
int length = 0;
  while(){
     b.write(bytes, 0, length);
  }
return new String(b.toByteArray(), "UTF8");
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 10 '12 at 10:08

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One solution would be using the Apache POI Java library for parsing the .doc file.

To get a File on the SD-card in Android, you could use something like

new File(getExternalFilesDir(null), "word.doc");

answered Oct 10 '12 at 10:08

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How parse .docx file ? – Kirtikumar A. Apr 09 '14 at 10:48

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 10 '12 at 10:18

try this code

 File file=new File("/sdcard/word.doc");
                        if(file.exists())
                        {
                              Uri path=Uri.fromFile(file);
                              Intent intent=new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
                              intent.setDataAndType(path, "application/doc");

                              try
                              {

                                    startActivity(intent);
                              }
                              catch(ActivityNotFoundException e)
                              {
                                    Toast.makeText(TestActivity.this, "No software for Doc", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                              }
                        }

Hello sir this code not working startActivity. – Prashant Kumar Oct 10 '12 at 10:49 — Prashant Kumar, Oct 10 '12 at 10:49

How to read .doc file in SD card in Android?

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