Parse Word document to upload data to database

[anandhkumar]

hi dudes

can anyone there guide me in parsing word document to upload the data from word doc to d/b using ruby on rails... It would be helpful if i get a sample description of that code...

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[improvcornartist]

You can use win32ole to parse the Word documents, then just grab the text and save it in the database. Here's an example for getting text out of a Word document:

require 'win32ole'
word = WIN32OLE.new('word.application')
word.documents.open(path_to_file)
 
# select whole text
word.selection.wholestory
 
# read the selection
puts word.selection.text.chomp
 
# close document
word.activedocument.close( false ) # no save dialog, just close it
 
# quit word
word.quit