Hi, I want to be able to read the

[Jacqui1811]

Hi,
I want to be able to read the text from an uploaded word document into a string and save the string in a resx file.
I am fine doing this if the document is a txt or a html by using :
//// html and text doc this works.
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(FileUpload.PostedFile.InputStream);
textString = sr.ReadToEnd();
sr.Close();
updateElement("MESSAGE_PORTAL_TERMS.Text", textString);

However if I do this with a .doc I get
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����$�$�$�$�$�$�$$�&h�(�%�����%�%SSS�v�$S��$SS����4�
�g��$1%0a%�)I�)D�)\� �ZM@S�4�0
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and then the text in the document inter-spaced with more of the weird characters.

My production server won't have office installed so I won't have access to the interop dll on there so without using office.interop is there any way I can read the text without the weird characters throughout?
Preferably with C# but vb.net example is fine as well

Hope you can help.
Thanks.
Jacqui.

 

[jbenson001]

See if this will help you:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/3959/Microsoft-Word-Documents-from-ASP-NET

 

[Jacqui1811]

Hi,
Thanks for the link but my production server won't have word installed and this references the word.application class. Unless I am mistaken I would need to install word to gain access to this.
Sorry I thought I mentioned in the OP the main problem is no office/word will be there.
Many thanks for your help though.
Jacqui.

 

[jbenson001]

Sorry, I missed that. Yes you definitely need to have it installed, no other way.

 

[MarkSweetland]

Here is a link to Microsoft's support site that warns about using server-side automation of Office componenets. It also includes links to alternatives that may help you out...

Article ID: 257757


Mark

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