# How to get contents of word file page by page **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 12, 2008, 11:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-contents-of-word-file-page-by-page/155487 "2008-12-12T11:10:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/bc8723/32.png) [@talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/talib)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 11:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-contents-of-word-file-page-by-page/155487/1 "2008-12-12T11:10:34Z")
Hi, I have a 3 paged document, I want to read contents of each page. How cn i do that. TIA, Talib H. ---
**Author:** ![talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/bc8723/32.png) [@talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/talib)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 12:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-contents-of-word-file-page-by-page/155487/2 "2008-12-12T12:52:58Z")
Talib H. wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 3 paged document, I want to read contents of each page. How cn > i do that. > > TIA, > Talib H. Anyone please ---
**Author:** ![talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/bc8723/32.png) [@talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/talib)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-contents-of-word-file-page-by-page/155487/3 "2008-12-12T14:50:32Z")
Talib H. wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 3 paged document, I want to read contents of each page. How cn > i do that. > > TIA, > Talib H. Assuming… – You are working with a Microsoft Word document. – You have actual page breaks between pages …you can create an array of the text on each page by getting the document contents’ text and splitting it on the page break. So, where doc is your Word document object, you can do this: pages = doc.content.text.split(“\f”) pages.each do |page| # do something with this page’s text end Hope that helps. David > **[Ruby on Windows](http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com)** > > On using the Ruby programming language on the Microsoft Windows platform > **[Ruby on Windows](http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/search/label/word)** > > On using the Ruby programming language on the Microsoft Windows platform ---
**Author:** ![talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/bc8723/32.png) [@talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/talib)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 5:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-contents-of-word-file-page-by-page/155487/4 "2008-12-15T05:53:18Z")
Heesob P. wrote: > 2008/12/12 Talib H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > > > Hi, > > Regards, > Park H. Thanks a lot Park, you are genius. My requirements is that I have a document (Word file) of say 3 pages with formatted text. I need to extract the contents of each page with formatting and save that as a seprate .PDF document. Is this possible? If yes how can I do that? Also, do I need to install Office 2007 in order to save files as .PDF documents. Kindly let me know. ---
**Author:** ![talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/bc8723/32.png) [@talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/talib)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-contents-of-word-file-page-by-page/155487/5 "2008-12-12T14:54:51Z")
2008/12/12 Talib H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > Hi, > > I have a 3 paged document, I want to read contents of each page. How cn > i do that. If you want only text contents, try this require ‘win32ole’ word = WIN32OLE.new(‘word.application’) file = ‘c:/work/test.doc’ doc = word.documents.open(file,‘ReadOnly’ =\> true) page = doc.ComputeStatistics(2) # wdStatisticPages = 2 for i in 1…page word.selection.goto(1,1,i) # wdGoToPage = 1 word.selection.goto(-1,0,0,‘\page’) # wdGoToBookmark = -1 puts “PAGE #{i}” puts word.selection.text end word.activedocument.close(false) word.quit Regards, Park H. ---
**Author:** ![talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/bc8723/32.png) [@talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/talib)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 7:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-contents-of-word-file-page-by-page/155487/6 "2008-12-15T07:27:05Z")
You must be trying to solve a problem (word document convertation to pdf) with a wrong tool:). You don’t need ruby to convert word file to pdf. There are tools like Word2pdf for this. Talib H. wrote: > Heesob P. wrote: > > > 2008/12/12 Talib H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > > > > > Hi, > > > > Regards, > > Park H. > > Thanks a lot Park, you are genius. > > My requirements is that I have a document (Word file) of say 3 pages > with formatted text. > > I need to extract the contents of each page with formatting and save > that as a seprate .PDF document. > > Is this possible? If yes how can I do that? > > Also, do I need to install Office 2007 in order to save files as .PDF > documents. > > Kindly let me know. ---
**Author:** ![talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/bc8723/32.png) [@talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/talib)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 7:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-contents-of-word-file-page-by-page/155487/7 "2008-12-15T07:50:49Z")
Name S. wrote: > You must be trying to solve a problem (word document convertation to > pdf) with a wrong tool:). You don’t need ruby to convert word file to > pdf. There are tools like Word2pdf for this. > > Talib H. wrote: > > > Heesob P. wrote: > > > > > 2008/12/12 Talib H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Regards, > > > Park H. > > > > Thanks a lot Park, you are genius. > > > > My requirements is that I have a document (Word file) of say 3 pages > > with formatted text. > > > > I need to extract the contents of each page with formatting and save > > that as a seprate .PDF document. > > > > Is this possible? If yes how can I do that? > > > > Also, do I need to install Office 2007 in order to save files as .PDF > > documents. > > > > Kindly let me know. Agreed, but I have to create 3 seprate doc files out of one document (each page of the document) and send these files as input to the pdf converter ---
**Author:** ![talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/bc8723/32.png) [@talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/talib)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 9:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-contents-of-word-file-page-by-page/155487/8 "2008-12-15T09:07:56Z")
- Name S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [2008-12-15 15:55:34 +0900]: > that :). Surely, openoffice must have something - you can export word documents as PDFs - there may be a corresponding command line utility… saji > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > that as a seprate .PDF document. > > > > > > (each page of the document) and send these files as input to the pdf > > > > > > converter > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). – Saji N. Hameed APEC Climate Center +82 51 668 7470 National Pension Corporation Busan Building 12F Yeonsan 2-dong, Yeonje-gu, BUSAN 611705 removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid KOREA ---
**Author:** ![talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/bc8723/32.png) [@talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/talib)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 8:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-contents-of-word-file-page-by-page/155487/9 "2008-12-15T08:03:02Z")
If you have Word2pdf like program, then check if you can specify which page to covert. You could call Word2pdf several times specifying different page numbers to convert. Word2pdf -n 1 infile.doc out1.pdf Word2pdf -n 2 infile.doc out2.pdf Word2pdf -n 3 infile.doc out3.pdf 😃 The only thing here is to find(have) Word2pdf program which supports that :). Talib H. wrote: > Name S. wrote: > > > You must be trying to solve a problem (word document convertation to > > pdf) with a wrong tool:). You don’t need ruby to convert word file to > > pdf. There are tools like Word2pdf for this. > > > > Talib H. wrote: > > > > > Heesob P. wrote: > > > > > > > 2008/12/12 Talib H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Park H. > > > > > > Thanks a lot Park, you are genius. > > > > > > My requirements is that I have a document (Word file) of say 3 pages > > > with formatted text. > > > > > > I need to extract the contents of each page with formatting and save > > > that as a seprate .PDF document. > > > > > > Is this possible? If yes how can I do that? > > > > > > Also, do I need to install Office 2007 in order to save files as .PDF > > > documents. > > > > > > Kindly let me know. > > Agreed, but I have to create 3 seprate doc files out of one document > (each page of the document) and send these files as input to the pdf > converter ---
**Author:** ![talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/bc8723/32.png) [@talib](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/talib)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-get-contents-of-word-file-page-by-page/155487/10 "2009-06-12T16:53:59Z")
Thanks park… that was good… now say, my word document has got some student detail information such as name,marks register no… these are the entries i’ll be having… say me how to parse this strings and upload it to the database… Thanks