Apache POI : Parse text from .docx, .pptx, .xlsx file using Apache POI 3.9

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In past when I first created this blog and blogged in "Parse text from word files", Apache Poi package was not able to parse texts from .docx, .xlsx and .pptx files. And now it can extract text from .docx, .pptx, .xlsx files.

Here's the code on how to parse text from those files using Apache Poi 3.9 .

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package com.blogspot.computergodzilla.xparser;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.exceptions.InvalidFormatException;
import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.exceptions.OpenXML4JException;
import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.OPCPackage;
import org.apache.poi.xslf.extractor.XSLFPowerPointExtractor;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.extractor.XSSFExcelExtractor;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.extractor.XWPFWordExtractor;
import org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

/**
 * This class parses the .docx ,.pptx and .xlsx files.
 *
 * @author Mubin Shrestha
 */
public class XParsers {

    /**
     * This method parses the .docx files.
     *
     * @param docx
     * @throws FileNotFoundException
     * @throws IOException
     * @throws XmlException
     * @throws InvalidFormatException
     * @throws OpenXML4JException
     * @throws ParserConfigurationException
     * @throws SAXException
     */
    public void DocFileContentParser(OPCPackage docx) throws FileNotFoundException,
            IOException,
            XmlException,
            InvalidFormatException,
            OpenXML4JException,
            ParserConfigurationException,
            SAXException {
        XWPFWordExtractor xw = new XWPFWordExtractor(docx);
        System.out.println(xw.getText());
    }

    /**
     * This method parses the pptx files
     *
     * @param pptx
     * @throws FileNotFoundException
     * @throws IOException
     * @throws InvalidFormatException
     * @throws XmlException
     * @throws OpenXML4JException
     */
    public void ppFileContentParser(OPCPackage pptx) throws FileNotFoundException,
            IOException,
            InvalidFormatException,
            XmlException,
            OpenXML4JException {
        XSLFPowerPointExtractor xw = new XSLFPowerPointExtractor(pptx);
        System.out.println(xw.getText());
    }

    /**
     * This method parsed xlsx files
     *
     * @param xlsx
     * @throws FileNotFoundException
     * @throws IOException
     * @throws InvalidFormatException
     * @throws XmlException
     * @throws OpenXML4JException
     */
    public void excelContentParser(OPCPackage xlsx) throws FileNotFoundException,
            IOException,
            InvalidFormatException,
            XmlException,
            OpenXML4JException {
        XSSFExcelExtractor xe = new XSSFExcelExtractor(xlsx);
        System.out.println(xe.getText());
    }

    /**
     * main method
     *
     * @param args
     * @throws FileNotFoundException
     * @throws IOException
     * @throws XmlException
     * @throws InvalidFormatException
     * @throws OpenXML4JException
     * @throws ParserConfigurationException
     * @throws SAXException
     */
    public static void main(String args[]) throws FileNotFoundException,
            IOException,
            XmlException,
            InvalidFormatException,
            OpenXML4JException,
            ParserConfigurationException,
            SAXException {
        File file = new File("fileName"); //give your file name here of 
                                          //which you want to parse text
        FileInputStream fs = new FileInputStream(file);
        OPCPackage d = OPCPackage.open(fs);
        XParsers xp = new XParsers();
        if (file.getName().endsWith(".docx")) {
            xp.DocFileContentParser(d);
        } else if (file.getName().endsWith(".xlsx")) {
            xp.excelContentParser(d);
        } else if (file.getName().endsWith(".pptx")) {
            xp.ppFileContentParser(d);
        }
    }
}

Edit:

Well I must be a very bad blogger. Here is the picture on the list of libraries needed: