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Microsoft Word .doc/.docx Reader

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We are getting a shiny new Writer in FME Workbench 2018. We also need a Reader! Believe it or not, sometimes we have data in a Word document that we have to read and do something with the contents. I just spent a couple of days figuring out a workaround (great thanks to some of the forum posts that led me to a workaround in the meantime) to harvest images from Word documents and rename them using a piece of data within the Word document. It was a bit painful to say the least.

PS: You can read a .docx by extracting it first with 7-zip so I'm using the command line utility to do that via a SystemCaller transformer first, then read in the Office Open XML file.

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Hi, Totally agree a bit of a surprise that a workaround is needed when FME could do that for us...

Come on guys get us a .docx reader!


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  • February 13, 2020

I have a use case for this too


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i can't even get FME xml reader to open up the XML contained therein the docx once converted to zip. Very frustrating.


ecthelion
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  • June 28, 2022

This should be applied to all Open XML format (introduced in 2007 I believe) MS Office applications.


areyi
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  • Contributor
  • August 21, 2023

We have usecases for reading .docx Files too


LizAtSafe
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  • Safer
  • November 20, 2024
OpenGathering Interest

LizAtSafe
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  • Safer
  • March 7, 2025
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crutledge
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  • Enthusiast
  • March 8, 2025

Amazing! Thanks Liz!


cpc
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  • Contributor
  • March 20, 2025

by RELEASED does this mean the transformer is available somewhere? How can we access and use please?


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