How to retrieve the URL from an INCLUDEPICTURE field in a Word document

Syncfusion Essential DocIO is a .NET Word library used to create, read, edit, and convert Word documents programmatically without Microsoft Word or interop dependencies. Using this library, you can retrieve the URL from an INCLUDEPICTURE field in a Word document using C#.

Steps to retrieve the URL from an INCLUDEPICTURE field in a Word document:

1. Create a new .NET Core console application project.
2. Install the Syncfusion.DocIO.Net.Core NuGet package as a reference to your project from NuGet.org.
   
   

3. Include the following namespaces in Program.cs file
   C#

using Syncfusion.DocIO.DLS;
using Syncfusion.DocIO;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System;
using System.IO; 

4. Use the following code example to retrieve the URL from an INCLUDEPICTURE field in a Word document.
   C#

using (FileStream fileStreamPath = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Data/Input.docx"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite))
{
   //Open an existing Word document into DocIO instance.
   using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument(fileStreamPath, FormatType.Docx))
   {
       //Find all INCLUDEPICTURE fields in the Word document based on field type.
       List<Entity> IncludePictureFields = document.FindAllItemsByProperty(EntityType.Field, "FieldType", "FieldIncludePicture");
       //List to store extracted URLs.
       List<string> urls = new List<string>();
       //Iterate through all INCLUDEPICTURE fields found in the document.
       foreach (WField field in IncludePictureFields)
       {
           //Extract the field code.
           string fieldCode = field.FieldCode;
           //The field code is in the format: INCLUDEPICTURE "URL"
           //Extract the URL between the quotes.
           string url = ExtractUrlFromFieldCode(fieldCode);
           //Add the URL to the list.
           urls.Add(url);
       }
       //Print all URLs at the end.
       Console.WriteLine("INCLUDEPICTURE URLs:");
       foreach (string url in urls)
       {
           Console.WriteLine(url);
       }
   }
}

5. Use the following helper method to extract the URL from the INCLUDEPICTURE field code.
   C#

/// <summary>
/// Extract the URL from the given INCLUDEPICTURE field code.
/// </summary>
static string ExtractUrlFromFieldCode(string fieldCode)
{
   string url = string.Empty;
   //Find the starting index of the URL (after the first quote).
   int startIndex = fieldCode.IndexOf('"') + 1;
   //Find the ending index of the URL (before the last quote).
   int endIndex = fieldCode.LastIndexOf('"');
   //Ensure valid indices and extract the URL if valid.
   if (startIndex > 0 && endIndex > startIndex)
   {
       url = fieldCode.Substring(startIndex, endIndex - startIndex);
   }
   return url;
}

You can download a complete working sample to retrieve the URL from an INCLUDEPICTURE field in a Word document from the GitHub.

By executing the program, you will get the output as follows.

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