MSWordDocument will let you read any Word document directly without OLE automation of MS Word application. MS Word installed is not required at all. TWordPerfectFile allows to read any Word Perfect (Corel Office) document (without any external library too) with all formattings (fonts/colors/alignments etc).TWRIFile allows to read any MS Write documentand extract plain text and all formattings.

Direct text extraction allow to process large documents very-very fast. Summary Information is available too.You may use this component to provide a search engine - for example, find document where some substring is occured or to display summary information and text preview in own file manager.

Complex documents (fast-saved, multi-piece files) are supported.
Localized MS Word versions are supported too - German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italic, Danish, Swedish, Cyrrilic (Russian, Ukrainian etc), Hebrew and others

Documents from files or streams (BLOB, archive, memory etc) could be parsed for plain text.Additionally the parsers for Word Perfect and MS Write could convert the original document to html-file or rtf-file.

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