Plain text

The following example shows how to extract plain formatted 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 reader = parser.getFormattedText(new groupdocs.FormattedTextOptions(groupdocs.FormattedTextMode.PlainText));
  // 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);

The following Microsoft Word document is used as input document:

The following plain text document is extracted using the example above:

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