JavaScript library to read doc and docx on client

Question

I am searching for a JavaScript library, which can read .doc - and .docx - files. The focus is only on the text content. I am not interested in pictures, formulas or other special structures in MS-Word file.

It would be great if the library works with to JavaScript FileReader as shown in the code below.

function readExcel(currfile) {
  var reader = new FileReader();

  reader.onload = (function (_file) {
      return function (e) {
          //here should the magic happen
      };
  })(currfile);

  reader.onabort = function (e) {
      alert('File read canceled');
  };

  reader.readAsBinaryString(currfile);
}

I searched through the internet, but I could not get what I was looking for.

Solution

You can use docxtemplater for this (even if normally, it is used for templating, it can also just get the text of the document) :

var zip = new JSZip(content);
var doc=new Docxtemplater().loadZip(zip)
var text= doc.getFullText();
console.log(text);

See the Doc for installation information (I'm the maintainer of this project)

However, it only handles docx, not doc

Comments

[Torben]

Thanks, that is what i was looking for. You did great work.

[slwr]

I get an error when I use this as a zip file zip.file('yo.docx', element.data, {base64: true});

[edi9999]

What kind of error ? Are you using jzip version 2 ? If you are using JSZip version 3, it will fail.

[Ramtin]

It is customary to inform the users that you are the author of the library mentioned in your answer.

[Jeon]

@edi9999 where can I find documentation for doc object?

[edi9999]

Here : docxtemplater.readthedocs.io/en/latest/generate.html