In this how-to tutorial, we describe the step-by-step procedure to extract Text from Excel in C# using one of the popular document parsing APIs. We also guide you on how to configure the required package for the development and provide the sample code to read Text from Excel file using C# to demonstrate the working of this feature. Here are the main steps along with a sample code snippet for extracting text from Excel documents.

Steps to Extract Text from Excel in C#

1. Install GroupDocs.Parser for .NET package from the NuGet package manager in the .NET project to extract Text from Excel
2. Add a reference to the necessary namespaces for extracting Text from an Excel file
3. Instantiate Parser class for loading the input XLSX file
4. Call the GetText method of the Parser class for getting the text reader object
5. Finally, read the text from the reader and print it on the screen

We have explained all the key steps that are necessary to extract Text from Excel using C#. In order to create the functionality, you just need to follow these points and write a few lines of code that consists of API calls of the required library. You do not need to set up any other third-party tool for getting text and also can consume these instructions on any of the popular operating systems like Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Code to Extract Text from Excel in C#

In the preceding snippet, we have implemented the C# extract Text from Excel functionality for demonstration. As you can see in the above code snippet, we have loaded the input XLSX file by initializing the Parser class after installing the required package and including the essential namespaces in the code. After that, we have invoked the GetText method for extracting the text and then printing it on the screen.

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