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GroupDocs.Parser allows to extract formatted text from documents for those cases when simple plain text is not enough and you need to keep formatting like text style, table layout etc.

This feature allows to extract text with integrated HTML tags or Markdown syntax. Even PlainText mode allows to convert your documents to high quality text with integrated ASCII formatting symbols for tables, lists etc.

To extract a formatted text from documents simply call the getFormattedText(options) method:

parser.getFormattedText(options); // returns TextReader or null

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

new groupdocs.FormattedTextOptions(mode);

The FormattedTextMode enumeration has the following members:

TextReader has the following members:

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

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

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

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 options = new groupdocs.FormattedTextOptions(groupdocs.FormattedTextMode.Html);
  const reader = parser.getFormattedText(options);
  // 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 learn more about document data extraction features and get familiar how to extract text, images, forms and more, please refer to the advanced usage section.

Along with the full-featured library we provide simple, but powerful free Apps.

You are welcome to extract data from PDF, DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, Emails and more with our free online Free Online Document Parser App.