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GroupDocs.Parser provides the functionality to extract formatted text from documents by the getFormattedText method:

parser.getFormattedText(options); // options is a FormattedTextOptions object

The method returns an instance of the TextReader class with the extracted text, or null if formatted text extraction isn’t supported for the document. FormattedTextOptions has the following constructor:

new groupdocs.FormattedTextOptions(mode); // mode is a FormattedTextMode value

FormattedTextMode has the following members:

TextReader has the following members:

Here are the steps to extract HTML formatted text from the document:

• Instantiate the Parser object for the initial document;
• Instantiate FormattedTextOptions with the HTML text mode;
• Call the getFormattedText method and obtain the TextReader object;
• Check if reader isn’t null (formatted text extraction is supported for the document);
• Read the text from reader.

The following example shows how to extract a document text as HTML:

const groupdocs = require('@groupdocs/groupdocs.parser');

// Create an instance of Parser class
const parser = new groupdocs.Parser('sample.docx');
try {
  // Extract a formatted text into the reader
  const reader = parser.getFormattedText(new groupdocs.FormattedTextOptions(groupdocs.FormattedTextMode.Html));
  // If formatted text extraction isn't supported, a reader is null
  if (reader == null) {
    console.log("Formatted text extraction isn't supported");
  } else {
    try {
      // Print a formatted text from the document
      console.log(reader.readToEnd());
    } finally {
      reader.close();
    }
  }
} finally {
  parser.close();
}
process.exit(0);

To extract the text of a single page, see Extract formatted text from document page.

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