I was recently working on an enterprise project in which I needed to detect the text inside a Word Document. Now, I could have got rid of all the non-standard characters from the .doc file and hoped I got something reasonable at the end. I could have tried to run Word 2007 via command line to save the file as a .docx. Or I could just talk to any copy of MS Word via COM and have it do all the dirty work for me.
Naturally, I chose the latter. Here’s ten lines of code that do just that.
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