Develop Reference

Apache Poi - Java-: How to add text containing blank lines as separate paragraphs to a Word document using Apache POI?

I am unable to add text containing blank lines as separate paragraphs to a word document.
If I try to add the following text that contains 3 different paragraphs.
Some text here.
Another text here.
Another one here.
what I get is 1. Some text here. 2. Another text here. 3. Another one here. as if they were the same paragraph.
Is it possible to add a text containing blank lines as separate paragraphs to a Word document using Apache POI?
public static void addingMyParagraphs(XWPFDocument doc, String text) throws InvalidFormatException, IOException {
XWPFParagraph p = doc.createParagraph();
XWPFRun run = p.createRun();
run.setText(text);
run.setFontFamily("Times new Roman");
}
--In the method below MyText variable is a textArea variable that's part of a javaFx application.
public void CreatingDocument() throws IOException, InvalidFormatException {
String theText = myText.getText();
addingMyParagraphs(doc, theText);
FileOutputStream output = new FileOutputStream("MyDocument.docx");
doc.write(output);
output.close();
}
}

You need to split your text into "paragraphs" and add each paragraph separately to your WORD document. This has nothing to do with JavaFX.
Here is an example that uses text blocks to simulate the text that is entered into the [JavaFX] TextArea. Explanations after the code.
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFDocument;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFParagraph;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFRun;
public class PoiWord0 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String text = """
1. Some text here.
2. Another text here.
3. Another one here.
""";
String[] paras = text.split("(?m)^[ \\t]*\\r?\\n");
try (XWPFDocument doc = new XWPFDocument();
FileOutputStream output = new FileOutputStream("MyDocument.docx")) {
for (String para : paras) {
XWPFParagraph p = doc.createParagraph();
XWPFRun run = p.createRun();
run.setText(para.stripTrailing());
}
doc.write(output);
}
catch (IOException xIo) {
xIo.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
I assume that a paragraph delimiter is a blank line, so I split the text on the blank lines. This still leaves the trailing newline character in each element of the array. I use stripTrailing() to remove that newline.
Now I have an array of paragraphs, so I simply add a new paragraph to the [WORD] document for each array element.
Note that the above code was written using JDK 15.
The regex for splitting the text came from the SO question entitled Remove empty line from a multi-line string with Java
try-with-resources was added in Java 7.
stripTrailing() was added in JDK 11

How to delete first character after table using POI

I am attempting to format a Word document that has multiple tables. I need to delete line breaks that occur after table. How to i achieve this programatically in Java ?
I am currently trying it with the following code and it does not work
org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlCursor cursor = xwpfTable.getCTTbl().newCursor();
cursor.toEndToken();
cursor.toNextToken();
cursor.removeChars(2);
Further Clarification : We are receiving non-formatted word files from external source. We need to eliminate paragraph (extra lines in-between tables) when the table has only 1 row. Currently I are using a macro and achieving this by code :
For Each t In doc.Tables
Set myrange = doc.Characters(t.Range.End + 1)
If myrange.Text = Chr(13) Then
myrange.Delete
End If
Thanks in advance
What I am trying to remove:

According to your screenshot you wants to remove empty paragraphs which are placed immediately after tables.
This is possible, although i am wondering why those paragraphs are there. After removing those paragraphs, in Word the tables are not more editable as single tables but only as rows within one table. Is this what you want?
Anyway, as said removing the empty paragraphs after the tables is possible. To do so, you could traversing the body elements of the document. If there is a XWPFTable immediately followed by a XWPFParagraph and this XWPFParagraph does not have any text runs in it, then remove that XWPFParagraph from the document.
Example:
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.*;
public class WordRemoveEmptyParagraphs {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
XWPFDocument document = new XWPFDocument(new FileInputStream("./WordTables.docx"));
int thisBodyElementPos = 0;
int nextBodyElementPos = 1;
IBodyElement thisBodyElement = null;
IBodyElement nextBodyElement = null;
if (document.getBodyElements().size() > 1) { // document must have at least two body elements
do {
thisBodyElement = document.getBodyElements().get(thisBodyElementPos);
nextBodyElement = document.getBodyElements().get(nextBodyElementPos);
if (thisBodyElement instanceof XWPFTable && nextBodyElement instanceof XWPFParagraph) {
XWPFParagraph paragraph = (XWPFParagraph)nextBodyElement;
if (paragraph.getRuns().size() == 0) { // if paragraph does not have any text runs in it
document.removeBodyElement(nextBodyElementPos);
}
}
thisBodyElementPos++;
nextBodyElementPos = thisBodyElementPos + 1;
} while (nextBodyElementPos < document.getBodyElements().size());
}
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("./WordTablesChanged.docx");
document.write(out);
out.close();
document.close();
}
}

Reading equations from Word (*.docx) to HTML together with their text context using apache poi

We are building a java code to read word document (.docx) into our program using apache POI.
We are stuck when we encounter formulas and chemical equation inside the document.
Yet, we managed to read formulas but we have no idea how to locate its index in concerned string..
INPUT (format is *.docx)
text before formulae **CHEMICAL EQUATION** text after
OUTPUT (format shall be HTML) we designed
text before formulae text after **CHEMICAL EQUATION**
We are unable to fetch the string and reconstruct to its original form.
Question
Now is there any way to locate the position of the image and formulae within the stripped line, so that it can be restored to its original form after reconstruction of the string, as against having it appended at the end of string.?

If the needed format is HTML, then Word text content together with Office MathML equations can be read the following way.
In Reading equations & formula from Word (Docx) to html and save database using java I have provided an example which gets all Office MathML equations out of an Word document into HTML. It uses paragraph.getCTP().getOMathList() and paragraph.getCTP().getOMathParaList() to get the OMath elements from the paragraph. This takes the OMath elements out of the text context.
If one wants get those OMath elements in context with the other elements in the paragraphs, then using a org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlCursor is needed to loop over all different XML elements in the paragraph. The following example uses the XmlCursor to get text runs together with OMath elements from the paragraph.
The transformation from Office MathML into MathML is taken using the same XSLT approach as in Reading equations & formula from Word (Docx) to html and save database using java. There also is described where the OMML2MML.XSL comes from.
The file Formula.docx looks like:
Code:
import java.io.*;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.*;
import org.openxmlformats.schemas.wordprocessingml.x2006.main.CTP;
import org.openxmlformats.schemas.officeDocument.x2006.math.CTOMath;
import org.openxmlformats.schemas.officeDocument.x2006.math.CTOMathPara;
import org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlCursor;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import java.awt.Desktop;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
/*
needs the full ooxml-schemas-1.4.jar as mentioned in https://poi.apache.org/faq.html#faq-N10025
*/
public class WordReadTextWithFormulasAsHTML {
static File stylesheet = new File("OMML2MML.XSL");
static TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
static StreamSource stylesource = new StreamSource(stylesheet);
//method for getting MathML from oMath
static String getMathML(CTOMath ctomath) throws Exception {
Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(stylesource);
Node node = ctomath.getDomNode();
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(node);
StringWriter stringwriter = new StringWriter();
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(stringwriter);
transformer.setOutputProperty("omit-xml-declaration", "yes");
transformer.transform(source, result);
String mathML = stringwriter.toString();
stringwriter.close();
//The native OMML2MML.XSL transforms OMML into MathML as XML having special name spaces.
//We don't need this since we want using the MathML in HTML, not in XML.
//So ideally we should changing the OMML2MML.XSL to not do so.
//But to take this example as simple as possible, we are using replace to get rid of the XML specialities.
mathML = mathML.replaceAll("xmlns:m=\"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math\"", "");
mathML = mathML.replaceAll("xmlns:mml", "xmlns");
mathML = mathML.replaceAll("mml:", "");
return mathML;
}
//method for getting HTML including MathML from XWPFParagraph
static String getTextAndFormulas(XWPFParagraph paragraph) throws Exception {
StringBuffer textWithFormulas = new StringBuffer();
//using a cursor to go through the paragraph from top to down
XmlCursor xmlcursor = paragraph.getCTP().newCursor();
while (xmlcursor.hasNextToken()) {
XmlCursor.TokenType tokentype = xmlcursor.toNextToken();
if (tokentype.isStart()) {
if (xmlcursor.getName().getPrefix().equalsIgnoreCase("w") && xmlcursor.getName().getLocalPart().equalsIgnoreCase("r")) {
//elements w:r are text runs within the paragraph
//simply append the text data
textWithFormulas.append(xmlcursor.getTextValue());
} else if (xmlcursor.getName().getLocalPart().equalsIgnoreCase("oMath")) {
//we have oMath
//append the oMath as MathML
textWithFormulas.append(getMathML((CTOMath)xmlcursor.getObject()));
}
} else if (tokentype.isEnd()) {
//we have to check whether we are at the end of the paragraph
xmlcursor.push();
xmlcursor.toParent();
if (xmlcursor.getName().getLocalPart().equalsIgnoreCase("p")) {
break;
}
xmlcursor.pop();
}
}
return textWithFormulas.toString();
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
XWPFDocument document = new XWPFDocument(new FileInputStream("Formula.docx"));
//using a StringBuffer for appending all the content as HTML
StringBuffer allHTML = new StringBuffer();
//loop over all IBodyElements - should be self explained
for (IBodyElement ibodyelement : document.getBodyElements()) {
if (ibodyelement.getElementType().equals(BodyElementType.PARAGRAPH)) {
XWPFParagraph paragraph = (XWPFParagraph)ibodyelement;
allHTML.append("<p>");
allHTML.append(getTextAndFormulas(paragraph));
allHTML.append("</p>");
} else if (ibodyelement.getElementType().equals(BodyElementType.TABLE)) {
XWPFTable table = (XWPFTable)ibodyelement;
allHTML.append("<table border=1>");
for (XWPFTableRow row : table.getRows()) {
allHTML.append("<tr>");
for (XWPFTableCell cell : row.getTableCells()) {
allHTML.append("<td>");
for (XWPFParagraph paragraph : cell.getParagraphs()) {
allHTML.append("<p>");
allHTML.append(getTextAndFormulas(paragraph));
allHTML.append("</p>");
}
allHTML.append("</td>");
}
allHTML.append("</tr>");
}
allHTML.append("</table>");
}
}
document.close();
//creating a sample HTML file
String encoding = "UTF-8";
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("result.html");
OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(fos, encoding);
writer.write("<!DOCTYPE html>\n");
writer.write("<html lang=\"en\">");
writer.write("<head>");
writer.write("<meta charset=\"utf-8\"/>");
//using MathJax for helping all browsers to interpret MathML
writer.write("<script type=\"text/javascript\"");
writer.write(" async src=\"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.1/MathJax.js?config=MML_CHTML\"");
writer.write(">");
writer.write("</script>");
writer.write("</head>");
writer.write("<body>");
writer.write(allHTML.toString());
writer.write("</body>");
writer.write("</html>");
writer.close();
Desktop.getDesktop().browse(new File("result.html").toURI());
}
}
Result:
Just tested this code using apache poi 5.0.0 and it works. You need poi-ooxml-full-5.0.0.jar for apache poi 5.0.0. Please read https://poi.apache.org/help/faq.html#faq-N10025 for what ooxml libraries are needed for what apache poi version.

XWPFParagraph paragraph;
for (CTOMath ctomath : paragraph.getCTP().getOMathList()) {
formulas=formulas + getMathML(ctomath);
}
With the above code it is able to extract the math formula from the given paragraph of a docx file.
Also for the purpose displaying the formula in a html page I m converting it to mathml code and rendering it with MathJax on the page. This I m able to do.
But the problem is, Is it possible to get the position of the formula in the given paragraph. So that I can display the formula in the exact location in the paragraph while rendering it as a html page.

Removing an XWPFParagraph keeps the paragraph symbol (¶) for it

I am trying to remove a set of contiguous paragraphs from a Microsoft Word document, using Apache POI.
From what I have understood, deleting a paragraph is possible by removing all of its runs, this way:
/*
* Deletes the given paragraph.
*/
public static void deleteParagraph(XWPFParagraph p) {
if (p != null) {
List<XWPFRun> runs = p.getRuns();
//Delete all the runs
for (int i = runs.size() - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
p.removeRun(i);
}
p.setPageBreak(false); //Remove the eventual page break
}
}
In fact, it works, but there's something strange. The block of removed paragraphs does not disappear from the document, but it's converted in a set of empty lines. It's just like every paragraph would be converted into a new line.
By printing the paragraphs' content from code I can see, in fact, a space (for each one removed). Looking at the content directly from the document, with the formatting mark's visualization enabled, I can see this:
The vertical column of ¶ corresponds to the block of deleted elements.
Do you have an idea for that? I'd like my paragraphs to be completely removed.
I also tried by replacing the text (with setText()) and by removing eventual spaces that could be added automatically, this way:
p.setSpacingAfter(0);
p.setSpacingAfterLines(0);
p.setSpacingBefore(0);
p.setSpacingBeforeLines(0);
p.setIndentFromLeft(0);
p.setIndentFromRight(0);
p.setIndentationFirstLine(0);
p.setIndentationLeft(0);
p.setIndentationRight(0);
But with no luck.

I would delete paragraphs by deleting paragraphs, not by deleting only the runs in this paragraphs. Deleting paragraphs is not part of the apache poi high level API. But using XWPFDocument.getDocument().getBody() we can get the low level CTBody and there is a removeP(int i).
Example:
import java.io.*;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.*;
import java.awt.Desktop;
import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.exceptions.InvalidFormatException;
public class WordRemoveParagraph {
/*
* Deletes the given paragraph.
*/
public static void deleteParagraph(XWPFParagraph p) {
XWPFDocument doc = p.getDocument();
int pPos = doc.getPosOfParagraph(p);
//doc.getDocument().getBody().removeP(pPos);
doc.removeBodyElement(pPos);
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InvalidFormatException {
XWPFDocument doc = new XWPFDocument(new FileInputStream("source.docx"));
int pNumber = doc.getParagraphs().size() -1;
while (pNumber >= 0) {
XWPFParagraph p = doc.getParagraphs().get(pNumber);
if (p.getParagraphText().contains("delete")) {
deleteParagraph(p);
}
pNumber--;
}
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("result.docx");
doc.write(out);
out.close();
doc.close();
System.out.println("Done");
Desktop.getDesktop().open(new File("result.docx"));
}
}
This deletes all paragraphs from the document source.docx where the text contains "delete" and saves the result in result.docx.
Edited:
Although doc.getDocument().getBody().removeP(pPos); works, it will not update the XWPFDocument's paragraphs list. So it will destroy paragraph iterators and other accesses to that list since the list is only updated while reading the document again.
So the better approach is using doc.removeBodyElement(pPos); instead. removeBodyElement(int pos) does exactly the same as doc.getDocument().getBody().removeP(pos); if the pos is pointing to a pagagraph in the document body since that paragraph is an BodyElement too. But in addition, it will update the XWPFDocument's paragraphs list.

When you are inside of a table you need to use the functions of the XWPFTableCell instead of the XWPFDocument:
cell.removeParagraph(cell.getParagraphs().indexOf(para));

Converting a pdf to word document using java

I've successfully converted JPEG to Pdf using Java, but don't know how to convert Pdf to Word using Java, the code for converting JPEG to Pdf is given below.
Can anyone tell me how to convert Pdf to Word (.doc/ .docx) using Java?
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import com.itextpdf.text.Image;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
public class JpegToPDF {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
Document convertJpgToPdf = new Document();
PdfWriter.getInstance(convertJpgToPdf, new FileOutputStream(
"c:\\java\\ConvertImagetoPDF.pdf"));
convertJpgToPdf.open();
Image convertJpg = Image.getInstance("c:\\java\\test.jpg");
convertJpgToPdf.add(convertJpg);
convertJpgToPdf.close();
System.out.println("Successfully Converted JPG to PDF in iText");
} catch (Exception i1) {
i1.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

In fact, you need two libraries. Both libraries are open source. The first one is iText, it is used to extract the text from a PDF file. The second one is POI, it is ued to create the word document.
The code is quite simple:
//Create the word document
XWPFDocument doc = new XWPFDocument();
// Open the pdf file
String pdf = "myfile.pdf";
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(pdf);
PdfReaderContentParser parser = new PdfReaderContentParser(reader);
// Read the PDF page by page
for (int i = 1; i <= reader.getNumberOfPages(); i++) {
TextExtractionStrategy strategy = parser.processContent(i, new SimpleTextExtractionStrategy());
// Extract the text
String text=strategy.getResultantText();
// Create a new paragraph in the word document, adding the extracted text
XWPFParagraph p = doc.createParagraph();
XWPFRun run = p.createRun();
run.setText(text);
// Adding a page break
run.addBreak(BreakType.PAGE);
}
// Write the word document
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("myfile.docx");
doc.write(out);
// Close all open files
out.close();
reader.close();
Beware: With the used extraction strategy, you will lose all formatting. But you can fix this, by inserting your own, more complex extraction strategy.

You can use 7-pdf library
have a look at this it may help :
http://www.7-pdf.de/sites/default/files/guide/manuals/library/index.html
PS: itext has some issues when given file is non RGB image, try this out!!

Although it's far from being a pure Java solution OpenOffice/LibreOfffice allows one to connect to it through a TCP port; it's possible to use that to convert documents. If this looks like an acceptable solution, JODConverter can help you.