How to read plain text from .doc and .docx document and display in Flex3 text area

Question

We are in the process of developing a CRM application and for that we need to upload *.doc and *.docx files and display that contents.

We successfully uploaded the *.doc and *.docx files in application by using FileReference and FileReferenceList. Would you please tell me some idea to read the contents from *.doc and *.docx files and to display the uploaded file content into flex text area.

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

This link shows one way to open a doc or docx through flash, but it will not output the text into a flex text area. In order to do that, you're going to have to decode the word file, which is not an easy task. I know of an as3 library for opening excel documents, which can give you an idea as to what you'll have to do, but I'm not aware of an existing library that will read word files for you.