Read Microsoft Word .doc files in Clojure

[Joshua Mendoza]

Hi!,

I've been looking for libraries or resources to read MS .doc files in Clojure, but found none. Does anyone have tried, used, encountered or witnessed such a thing to read them?

I found a lot of info publicly available by the government in .doc files but I want to process them automatically with Clojure.

The closest thing I know is using Incanter but to read XLS files, which is not useful at all for this...

Well, any help would be great.

Thank you!

[Dennis Haupt]

use apache poi and write a small wrapper or something

this is what i did

2014/1/2 Joshua Mendoza <joshu...@gmail.com>

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[Frank Hale]

One solution is to use ClojureCLR and the OpenXML SDK.

[Ron Toland]

If all you need is the text, you could use Apache Tika to extract it: http://tika.apache.org/

There's a simple clojure lib to get you started: https://github.com/alexott/clj-tika

I've used it to pull text out of .doc, .pdf, and .odt files.

Ron

[Brendan Younger]

I've used the Java code in TextExtractor http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10250617/java-apache-poi-can-i-get-clean-text-from-ms-word-doc-files with good success in Clojure projects.  Either throw it in as Java source or convert to Clojure code.  You'll probably want the tika-parsers jar instead of the tika-app jar, though.

Brendan

[Divya Shravanthi]

Hi Ron,

Could you please share an example of how to pull simple text from pdf/doc files. I couldn't find a proper tutorial for clj-tika. 

Thanks

[Gary Verhaegen]

clj-tika seems to be abandoned (and is marked as deprecated). You will probably be better off using Tika directly through interop.

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[Ron Toland]

Divya,

Here's a simple example for converting text from an input stream (which you can convert any file into):

(ns sample.tika

  (:require [clj-tika.core :as tika])

(defn extract-text

  "Extracts the text from the input stream"

  [input-stream]

  (tika/parse input-stream))

Ron

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