Test.doc to test.pdf using jakarta tomcat POI

Question

Hi
I need to convert my test.doc file in to
test.pdf.I found a API jakarta tomcat POI project handling file systems
1) is it possible to do that?(test.doc convert to test.pdf)
2) do i have to use POIFS API or HSSF API HPSF API?which API
3) do i have to use a jar file which i can add to class path?
4) Is there any place where i can see a simple example for file type convertion
Thanks for your help
Suda

Answer 1

This should help some.
This code converts word to text.
Did it two days ago. No shizerat.
You'll need to download the hdf code from
the "scratch section" of the poi site- which is how I got it to work.
import java.io.*;
import org.apache.poi.hpsf.*;
import org.apache.poi.poifs.eventfilesystem.*;
public class PoiTest {
public static void main(String[] args)
throws IOException
final String filename = args[0];
POIFSReader r = new POIFSReader();
r.registerListener(new MyPOIFSReaderListener(),
"\005SummaryInformation");
r.read(new FileInputStream(filename));
// create temp file of content
String curDir=System.getProperty("user.dir");
String pathSep=System.getProperty("file.separator");
String tempF=curDir+pathSep+"temp.txt";
testDoc td=new testDoc(filename, tempF);
td.getText();
} // end of class PoiTest
-----------Shizzy code, I know - but it worked for me----
----this is my docTest class I wrote to make it easy--
to get word into a text file---------------------------------------
import org.apache.poi.hdf.extractor.util.*;
import org.apache.poi.hdf.extractor.data.*;
import org.apache.poi.hdf.extractor.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem;
import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSDocument;
import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.DocumentEntry;
import org.apache.poi.util.LittleEndian;
class testDoc {
String origFileName;
String tempFile;
WordDocument wd;
testDoc(String origFileName, String tempFile) {
this.tempFile=tempFile;
this.origFileName=origFileName;
public void getText() {
try {
wd = new WordDocument(origFileName);
Writer out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(tempFile));
wd.writeAllText(out);
out.flush();
out.close();
catch (Exception eN) {
System.out.println("Error reading document:"+origFileName+"\n"+eN.toString());
} // end for getText
} // end of class