How to extract text from docx file with Nodejs

Question

i want to extract text from docx file, i have tried using mammoth

var mammoth = require("mammoth");
mammoth.extractRawText({path: "./doc.docx"})
    .then(function(result){
        var text = result.value; // The raw text 

        //this prints all the data of docx file
        console.log(text);

        for (var i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
            //this prints all the data char by char in separate lines
            console.log(text[i]);
        }
        var messages = result.messages;
    })
    .done();

but the problem here is that in this for loop i want data line by line instead of char by char, please help me here or is there any other method that you know?

What do you mean line by line? Like individual lines of the word document, or paragraphs separated by newlines? — Explosion Pills, Jul 06 '17 at 15:45
did you run this code, in console it is printing char by char data in new lines. there is no need to split by "\n". @tashakori — ankitkhandelwal185, Jul 06 '17 at 18:16
No! You got it wrong:-). I mean splitting the text itself by "\n" characters. And then you have an array of lines! Var lines = text.split ("\n"). Then lines [i] indicates the i'th line of text. — tashakori, Jul 06 '17 at 18:19

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 16 '18 at 13:32

One method is to fetch the whole text and then split by '\n':

import superagent from 'superagent';
import mammoth from 'mammoth';

const url = 'http://www.ojk.ee/sites/default/files/respondus-docx-sample-file_0.docx';

const main = async () => {

  const response = await superagent.get(url)
    .parse(superagent.parse.image)
    .buffer();

  const buffer = response.body;

  const text = (await mammoth.extractRawText({ buffer })).value;
  const lines = text.split('\n');

  console.log(lines);
};

main().catch(error => console.error(error));

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 23 '20 at 08:01

2

You can use any-text

Usage is simeple:

var reader = require('any-text');

reader.getText(`path-to-file`).then(function (data) {
  console.log(data);
});

answered Jul 23 '20 at 08:01

Abhinaba

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 03 '20 at 05:41

    var mammoth = require("mammoth");
var path = require("path");

var filePath = path.join(__dirname,'./doc.docx');

mammoth.extractRawText({path: filePath})
    .then(function(result){
        var text = result.value; // The raw text

        //this prints all the data of docx file
        //console.log(text);
        console.log('------------------------------');
        var textLines = text.split ("\n");

        for (var i = 0; i < textLines.length; i++) {
            //this prints all the data in separate lines
            console.log(textLines[i]);
        }
        var messages = result.messages;
    })
    .done();

How to extract text from docx file with Nodejs

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