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I need help on reading a DOC (.docx or .doc) file's contents and display it inside the UILabel. The file is from the URL, so I download the file to DocumentsDirectory and in the process of finding a solution to read the contents.

I am using Alamofire.download and I have called:

let content = try? String(contentsOfFile: (response.destinationURL?.path)!, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8)

but it is returning nil

Does anyone know how to read the contents of a doc file would be appreciated.

rmaddy
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  • try to replace `String.Encoding.utf8` to `String.Encoding.ascii` – a.masri May 13 '18 at 14:57
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    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2131430/reading-open-xml-documents-in-ios etc. – Larme May 13 '18 at 14:59
  • @a.masri I used .ascii and I get a lot of characters like ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ\u{01}\0þÿ\u{03}\n\0\0ÿÿÿÿ\u{06}\t\u{02 – Lawrence Gimenez May 13 '18 at 15:02
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    @LawGimenez : Not all files can be "translated" as a String. Just try to read a UIImage as a String, you can't really. You can print the hex data, but it's not done for that. .doc & .docx are private format. You might find libs for that (if you want good one, you might have to pay for it). Usually a UIWebView can render them. – Larme May 13 '18 at 15:05

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You can use this SNDocx

OR

Doing this is not as easy as you imagine, a docx file is a zipped up collection of XML and other files. You can't load a docx file into an String. You would need to use Data to load the zip contents. Then you would need to unzip it. Then you would need to go through all of the files and find the desired word/document.xml then read xml and parse .

Im use Zippy

Look this code 

 guard let originalFileURL = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "test", withExtension: "docx") else {
            print("file not found :( ")
            return
        }
     do{

           let filename = try! ZipFile.init(url: originalFileURL)
            // file name  content 
            //            - 0 : "[Content_Types].xml"
            //            - 1 : "word/numbering.xml"
            //            - 2 : "_rels/.rels"
            //            - 3 : "word/theme/theme1.xml"
            //            - 4 : "word/fontTable.xml"
            //            - 5 : "word/document.xml"
            //            - 6 : "word/settings.xml"
            //            - 7 : "word/styles.xml"
            //            - 8 : "word/_rels/document.xml.rels"

            for file in filename {
                if file.contains("document.xml"){
                    let data = filename[file]
                    print(String.init(data: data!, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8))
                }
            }

        }catch{
            print(error)
        }

Output

<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\r<w:document xmlns:mc=\"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006\" xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" xmlns:r=\"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships\" xmlns:m=\"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math\" xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\" xmlns:wp=\"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/wordprocessingDrawing\" xmlns:w10=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\" xmlns:w=\"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main\" xmlns:wne=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2006/wordml\" xmlns:sl=\"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/schemaLibrary/2006/main\" xmlns:a=\"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main\" xmlns:pic=\"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/picture\" xmlns:c=\"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/chart\" xmlns:lc=\"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/lockedCanvas\" xmlns:dgm=\"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/diagram\" xmlns:wps=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingShape\" xmlns:wpg=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordprocessingGroup\" xmlns:w14=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml\" xmlns:w15=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordml\"><w:body><w:p w:rsidR=\"00000000\" w:rsidDel=\"00000000\" w:rsidP=\"00000000\" w:rsidRDefault=\"00000000\" w:rsidRPr=\"00000000\" w14:paraId=\"00000000\"><w:pPr><w:contextualSpacing w:val=\"0\"/><w:rPr/></w:pPr><w:r w:rsidDel=\"00000000\" w:rsidR=\"00000000\" w:rsidRPr=\"00000000\"><w:rPr><w:rtl w:val=\"0\"/></w:rPr><w:t xml:space=\"preserve\">test</w:t></w:r></w:p><w:sectPr><w:pgSz w:h=\"15840\" w:w=\"12240\"/><w:pgMar w:bottom=\"1440\" w:top=\"1440\" w:left=\"1440\" w:right=\"1440\" w:header=\"0\"/><w:pgNumType w:start=\"1\"/></w:sectPr></w:body></w:document>

You have to parse xml this and you will find in the my output that it must be parse until this value is obtained

<w:t xml:space=\"preserve\">test</w:t>

docx XML Format reference

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