How to Get Text From TextForm in ASP.NET Core DocIO?

Syncfusion; Essential ; DocIO is a ASP.NET Core DocIO used to create, read, edit, and convert Word documents programmatically without Microsoft Word or interop dependencies. Using this library, you can get text with newline characters from TextFormField in Word document using C#.

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; 

4. Use the following code example to get text with newline characters from TextFormField in Word document.
   C#

using (FileStream inputStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Data/Template.docx"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
{
   // Opens the template Word document.
   using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument(inputStream, FormatType.Docx))
   {
       // Find WTextFormField by its name.
       WTextFormField textFormField = document.FindItemByProperty(EntityType.TextFormField, "Name", "Text1") as WTextFormField;
       if (textFormField != null)
       {
           // Get the bookmark name from the textFormField next sibiling.
           string bookmarkName = textFormField.Name;
           // Creates the bookmark navigator instance to access the bookmark.
           BookmarksNavigator bookmarkNavigator = new BookmarksNavigator(document);
           // Moves the virtual cursor to the location before the end of the bookmark.
           bookmarkNavigator.MoveToBookmark(bookmarkName);
           // Gets the bookmark content as WordDocumentPart.
           WordDocumentPart wordDocumentPart = bookmarkNavigator.GetContent();
           // Saves the WordDocumentPart as separate Word document.
           using (WordDocument newDocument = wordDocumentPart.GetAsWordDocument())
           {
               // Close the WordDocumentPart instance.
               wordDocumentPart.Close();
               // Get the text with new line characters.
               string textFieldText = newDocument.GetText();
               // Replace FORMTEXT word from the extracted text.
               textFieldText = textFieldText.Replace(" FORMTEXT ", "");
               // Write the output in console window.
               Console.WriteLine(textFieldText);
               // Press any key in console window to continue.
               Console.ReadKey();
           }
       }
   }
}

You can download a complete working sample to get text with newline characters from TextFormField in Word document from the GitHub.

Take a moment to peruse the documentation where you can find basic Word document processing options along with the features like mail merge, merge, split, and compare Word documents, find and replace text in the Word document, protect the Word documents, and most importantly, the PDF and Image conversions with code examples.

Conclusion

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