Read/Write Word Document in .Net Core Web Api

Question

I am working on a Web Api project build with .Net Core framework. I need to read a word document, copy its content and write it to another word file. I searched a lot for word document reading and writing in .Net Core Api project but had no luck. Please suggest me a library or tool which works in .Net Core Api project.

Rahul Prasad · Answer

Using spire.doc, you can copy content from one Word document to another by following code snippet. //load source file Document sourceDoc = new Document( "source.docx" ); //load target file Document destinationDoc = new Document( "target.docx" ); // traverse each Section and each DocumentObject in source file foreach (Section sec in sourceDoc.Sections) { foreach (DocumentObject obj in sec.Body.ChildObjects) { //insert the copies of each DocumentObject to the target file destinationDoc.Sections[0].Body.ChildObjects.Add(obj.Clone()); } } //save to the target file destinationDoc.SaveToFile( "target.docx" );

Murtuza Travadi · Answer

yes guys i facing same issue if you found any solution then plz let me know...

Hiren Bhudrani · Answer

@Salman, I checked those links but they are using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word, which is not supported in .Net Core. So not useful.

Salman Beg · Answer

Hi. Please follow this aticle, http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/reading-a-word-document-using-C-Sharp/ https://www.mindstick.com/Articles/629/read-microsoft-word-document-file-by-using-c-sharp https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6b9478cs.aspx thanks.

Murtuza Travadi · Answer

for solution check this https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/487