how to read .doc, .docx, .xls files in android [duplicate]

Question

I am trying to show the PDF & .DOC files in android. I am able to show PDF files, but I have problem to show the .DOC, .DOCX, .PPT and .xls files. With the help of WORD-EXTRACTOR we can fetch the text of the doc file but the problem is it only gives text not images from .doc file.

I searched to convert the doc file to PDF file but didn't succeed. Is it possible to convert the .doc files to PDF on device ?

If we want to show the .doc or .docx document in the android devices so which library is useful to do so? Any suggestions?

Darbydarce

in theory this is possible but I don't know of any library to do this on android. – Polysyllabic

i searched & i found that it can fetch the data from doc n can create pdf using wordextractor but it looks like it is paragraph.. – Darbydarce

word-extractor is not made for what you want... – Polysyllabic

ya i read its specification... it gives us all the text from the file..... which is better. 1. to convert .doc to pdf or 2. to render .doc file seprately..???? – Darbydarce

cant you use java libraries? vogella.de/blog/2010/02/11/java-library-jar-android – Assimilative

can you do this converting via a web service ? – Assimilative

but i want to make it on device.. if it is with web service it takes too much time to send the file & retrive... if it is on device that would be much better... – Darbydarce

i suggest you change name of this question to "how to render" or "how to display" – Assimilative

Answer 1

i suggest you do

doc to html
html to pdf

Convert Word doc to HTML programmatically in Java

theres no successful pure java "doc to pdf" but there are good "doc to html" and "html to pdf" ones

Assimilative