MS Word support on iOS

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I am writing a printing application that supports to select image and send over Internet for ePrinting.

My client is asking whether it is possible to open MS Word and select/extract some image for above printing method

Is there any way to open MS Word document in my application ? OR is there any third-party (paid is not a problem) for opening and extracting pages in MS Word ?

Thanks.

Another similar question (without a good answer): [Reading Microsoft word document in iphone](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2131430/reading-microsoft-word-document-in-iphone) — Brad Larson, Oct 23 '11 at 19:08

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 30 '14 at 21:04

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Take a look at the QuickLook.framework. That can read all MS Office formats. Also can print from a supported AirPrint printer.

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answered Nov 07 '11 at 05:05

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 03 '11 at 06:57

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Your best bet would be to export to PDF, and utilise some image extraction from there.

Useful libraries for this (check which work on iOS)

Ghostscript
MuPDF
Poppler

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 03 '11 at 09:18

There is an open source library called wordview, which you might want to take a look at. It is for MS Word formats up to Word 2000. The newer ones are XML-ish anyway, so you can probably parse them yourself using any XML reader you like.

Update: Notice that the license for this library is GPL. Not sure if that is compatible with your requirements.

Update 2: The wv2 branch seems to be LGPL, so it should fit all purposes.

MS Word support on iOS

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