The article demonstrates how to extract paragraphs from a word document using the getParagraphs() method of XWPFDocument class provided by the Apache POI package. Apache POI is a project developed and maintained by Apache Software Foundation that provides libraries to perform numerous operations on Microsoft office files using java.
To extract paragraphs from a word file, the essential requirement is to import the following library of Apache.
poi-ooxml.jar
Approach
- Formulate the path of the word document
- Create a FileInputStream and XWPFDocument object for the word document.
- Retrieve the list of paragraphs using the getParagraphs() method.
- Iterate through the list of paragraphs to print it.
Implementation
- Step 1: Getting the path of the current working directory where the word document is located.
- Step 2: Creating a file object with the above-specified path.
- Step 3: Creating a document object for the word document.
- Step 4: Using the getParagraphs() method to retrieve the paragraphs list from the word file.
- Step 5: Iterating through the list of paragraphs
- Step 6: Printing the paragraphs
- Step 7: Closing the connections
Sample Input
The content of the Word document is as follows:
Implementation
Example
Java
// Java program to extract paragraphs from a Word Document // Importing IO package for basic file handlingimport java.io.*;import java.util.List;// Importing Apache POI packageimport org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFDocument;import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFParagraph; // Main class to extract paragraphs from word documentpublic class GFG { // Main driver method public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { // Step 1: Getting path of the current working // directory where the word document is located String path = System.getProperty("user.dir"); path = path + File.separator + "WordFile.docx"; // Step 2: Creating a file object with the above // specified path. FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream(path); // Step 3: Creating a document object for the word // document. XWPFDocument document = new XWPFDocument(fin); // Step 4: Using the getParagraphs() method to // retrieve the list of paragraphs from the word // file. List<XWPFParagraph> paragraphs = document.getParagraphs(); // Step 5: Iterating through the list of paragraphs for (XWPFParagraph para : paragraphs) { // Step 6: Printing the paragraphs System.out.println(para.getText() + "\n"); } // Step 7: Closing the connections document.close(); }} |
Output
