Reading contents from microsoft word document

[Amirtharaj Chinnaraj]

hi guys

my need is to read the microsoft word document

and print it in the console while doing that

i faced a problem . iam getting some ascii characters that are

not present in the document. when i do the same thing with

text (*.txt) file things are fine

[jeroen dijkmeijer]

I think you should have a look at the POI (apache) framework.
regards,
Jeroen.

[Ulf Dittmer]

.doc files contain many characters that are not part of the actual text (e.g., layout information and such). If you just want the text, use POI as suggested. This page explains how it can be used for text extraction.