Re: MS Word / Excel File Viewer API
From: Herman Timmermans (timmermansdot.hermanat_at_skynet.be)
Date: 03/21/04
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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 06:57:42 +0100
David wrote:
> I am hoping that someone might be able to provide me with a link to an
> API which can read MS Word (or even Excel) formats. Microsoft offers
> a free downloadable viewer and this is what I want IF it were also an
> API which could be interfaced in Java. I need to be able to 'grab'
> the page previews of Word documents. I don't care about manipulating
> the document - only being able to see the document and taking that
> image for use in my own program.
>
> Any ideas of tools out there or ways of doing this in Java?
>
> Thanks in advance!
Maybe you could use some of the work done by OpenOffice/StarOffice and look
at the SDK. It provides access from Java (and others) to the API.
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sdk/
Hope this helps,
Herman
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