Read word document (*.doc) content with tables etc

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I have a word document (2003). I am using Powershell to parse the content of the document. The document contains a few lines of text at the top, a dozen tables with differing number of columns and then some more text. I expect to be able to read the document as something like the below: - Read document (make necessary objects etc) - Get each line of text - If not part of a table, process as text and Write-Output - else - If part of a table - Get table number (by order) and parse output based on columns - end if Below is the powershell script that I have begun to write: ``` $objWord = New-Object -Com Word.Application $objWord.Visible = $false $objDocument = $objWord.Documents.Open($filename) $paras = $objDocument.Paragraphs foreach ($para in $paras) { Write-Output $para.Range.Text } ``` I am not sure if Paragraphs is what I want. Is there anything more suitable for my purpose? All I am getting now is the entire content of the document. How do I control what I get. Like I want to get a…

Accepted Answer

You can enumerate the tables in a Word document via the `Tables` collection. The `Rows` and `Columns` properties will allow you to determine the number of rows/columns in a given table. Individual cells can be accessed via the `Cell` object.

Example that will print the value of the cell in the last row and last column of each table in the document:

```
$wd = New-Object -ComObject Word.Application
$wd.Visible = $true
$doc = $wd.Documents.Open($filename)
$doc.Tables | ForEach-Object {
  $_.Cell($_.Rows.Count, $_.Columns.Count).Range.Text
}
```

Read word document (*.doc) content with tables etc

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