Reading from .doc or .docx file

[Sawan Mishra]

import java.io.*;
public class test
{
public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception
{
File f=new File("E:/","mydoc.doc");
FileReader c=new FileReader(f);
int h=0;
while( (h=c.read())!=-1)
System.out.print((char)h);
c.close();
}
}

I understand the above program but my problem is reading from
Ms-word(.doc file or .docx file) and writing result to console gives
unexpected output.
How can I read from .doc file and write content to console correctly??

thanks in advance
with regards

[Jesper de Jong]

Microsoft Word .doc and .docx files are not simple text files that you can read this way with a FileReader.

You'll need a library that understands the specific MS Word file formats, such as Apache POI.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Those are structured file formats which contain much else besides the plain text. You need to use a library like Apache POI (which can extract the plain text, and also provides an API to get at the structured content).

[Paweł Baczyński]

Don't read doc as a regular text file!
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7102511/how-read-doc-or-docx-file-in-java

[Tony Docherty]

You need to use a library that understands the format that doc and docx files are saved in. Fortunately there are free libraries available such as POI which can be found at http://poi.apache.org/

[Campbell Ritchie]

Too difficult for “beginnign”: moving.