How to print the extracted text from all plain text content controls 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 print the extracted text from all plain text content controls in a Word document using C#.

Steps to print the extracted text from all plain text content controls 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; 

4. Add the property to store extracted text from content controls.
   C#

static List<string> extractedTextCollection = new List<string>(); 

5. Use the following code example to print the extracted text from all plain text content controls in a Word document.
   C#

//Open the file as Stream
using (FileStream docStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Data/Template.docx"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
   //Creates an instance of WordDocument class
   using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument(docStream, FormatType.Automatic))
   {
       //Find all plain text content control by EntityType in Word document.
       List<Entity> plainTextContentControls = document.FindAllItemsByProperty(EntityType.InlineContentControl, "ContentControlProperties.Type", "Text");
       // Extract text from all plain text content controls.
       for (int i = 0; i < plainTextContentControls.Count; i++)
       {
           InlineContentControl plainTextContentControl = plainTextContentControls[i] as InlineContentControl;
           ExtractTextInPlainTextContentControl(plainTextContentControl);
       }
       // Print extracted text to the console
       Console.WriteLine("Extracted Text from Plain Text Content Controls:");
       foreach (string extractedText in extractedTextCollection)
           Console.WriteLine(extractedText);
       Console.ReadLine();
   }
}

6. Use the following method to extract text in Plain text content control
   C#

private static void ExtractTextInPlainTextContentControl(InlineContentControl plainTextContentControl)
{
   foreach (ParagraphItem item in plainTextContentControl.ParagraphItems)
   {
       if (item is WTextRange)
       {
           WTextRange textRange = (item as WTextRange);
           string text = textRange.Text;
           extractedTextCollection.Add(text);
       }
   }
} 

You can download a complete working sample to print the extracted text from all plain text content controls in a 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

I hope you enjoyed learning about how to print the extracted text from all plain text content controls in .NET Core Word document.

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