This article goes through all the necessary information for extracting text from documents using one of the best .NET APIs to extract document data and guides you on how to extract text from Word document using C#. Further, it provides the information for configuring the required package and a working example to demonstrate the implementation of the C# extract text from Word document application. Here are the key steps as well as sample code for getting the text from Word documents.

Steps to Extract Text from Word Document using C#

1. Install GroupDocs.Parser for .NET package from the NuGet website in the .NET project to extract text from Word document
2. Add a reference of the necessary namespaces for extracting the text from the Word file
3. Create an object of the Parser class for loading the input DOCX document
4. Call the GetText method of the Parser class and get a TextReader object
5. Finally, use the ReadToEnd method to read the text from the reader object

The above points enable you to quickly create the application to extract text from Word document C#. These steps do not depend on any third-party tool for extracting text from documents and you can use them on any platform like MS Windows, Linux, and macOS that support a .NET environment. Further, you have to write a few lines of code that consume a couple of API calls of the required library for getting the text from the DOC or DOCX documents.

Code to Extract Text from Word Document using C#

The read text from Word document C# capability is developed in the above code snippet to show you how to extract text from DOCX document. However, you can also use DOC format documents in this sample code for getting the text. Further, this example can be adapted for extracting text from a variety of other document formats including DOT, RTF, XLSX, CSV, MHTML, EML, PPTX, ZIP, PDF, and many more.

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