.NET API to Manipulate Documents

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Aspose.Words for .NET is a powerful on-premise class library that can be used for numerous document processing tasks. It enables developers to enhance their own applications with features such as generating, modifying, converting, rendering, and printing documents, without relying on third-party applications, for example, Microsoft Word, or automation.

Word API Features

The following are some popular features of Aspose.Words for .NET:

Aspose.Words can be used to develop applications for a vast range of operating systems such as Windows or Linux & Mac OS and platforms such as Windows Azure, Xamarin.Android, or Xamarin.iOS & Xamarin.Mac.
Comprehensive document import and export with 35+ supported file formats. This allows users to convert documents from one popular format to another, for example, from DOCX into PDF or Markdown, or from PDF into various Word formats.
Programmatic access to the formatting properties of all document elements. For example, using Aspose.Words users can split a document into parts or compare two documents.
High fidelity rendering of document pages. For example, if it is needed to render a document as in Microsoft Word, Aspose.Words will successfully cope with this task.
Ability to print a document programmatically using Aspose.Words and the XpsPrint API or via dialog boxes.
Generate reports with Mail Merge, which allows filling in merge templates with data from various sources to create merged documents.
LINQ Reporting Engine to fetch data from databases, XML, JSON, OData, external documents, and much more.

Read & Write Document Formats

Microsoft Word: DOC, DOT, DOCX, DOTX, DOTM, FlatOpc, FlatOpcMacroEnabled, FlatOpcTemplate, FlatOpcTemplateMacroEnabled, RTF, WordML
OpenDocument: ODT, OTT
Web: HTML, MHTML
Markdown: MD
Fixed Layout: PDF
Text: TXT

Read Document Formats

Microsoft Word: DocPreWord60
eBook: MOBI, CHM

Save Document As

Fixed Layout: XPS, OpenXps
PostScript: PS
Printer: PCL
eBook: EPUB
Markup: XamlFixed, HtmlFixed, XamlFlow (Beta), XamlFlowPack (Beta)
Image: SVG, TIFF, PNG, BMP, JPEG, GIF
Metafile: EMF

Platform Independence

Aspose.Words for .NET API can be used to develop applications for a vast range of operating systems, such as Windows, Linux and Mac OS, and platforms. You can build both 32-bit and 64-bit applications, including ASP.NET, WCF, and WinForms. Aspose.Words for .NET can also be used via COM Interop from ASP, PHP, Perl, and Python.

You can also build applications with Mono, as well as on Windows Azure, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Silverlight, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS, and Xamarin.Mac.

Get Started

Ready to give Aspose.Words for .NET a try?

Simply run Install-Package Aspose.Words from the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio to fetch the NuGet package. If you already have Aspose.Words for .NET and want to upgrade the version, please run Update-Package Aspose.Words to get the latest version.

You can run the following snippets in your environment to see how Aspose.Words works, or check out the GitHub Repository for other common use cases.

Using C# to Create a DOCX File from Scratch

Aspose.Words for .NET allows you to create a new blank document and add content to this document.

// Create a blank document.
Document doc = new Document();

// Use a document builder to add content to the document.
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
// Write a new paragraph in the document with the text "Hello World!".
builder.Writeln("Hello World!");

// Save the document in DOCX format. Save format is automatically determined from the file extension.
doc.Save(dir + "output.docx");

Using C# to Convert a Word Document to HTML

Aspose.Words for .NET also allows you to convert Microsoft Word formats to PDF, XPS, Markdown, HTML, JPEG, TIFF, and other file formats. The following snippet demonstrates the conversion from DOCX to HTML:

// Load the document from the disc.
Document doc = new Document(dir + "TestDocument.docx");

// Save the document to HTML format.
doc.Save(dir + "output.html");

Using C# to Import PDF and Save as a DOCX File

In addition, you can import a PDF document into your .NET application and export it as a DOCX format file without the need to install Microsoft Word:

// Load the PDF document from the disc.
Document doc = new Document(dir + "TestDocument.pdf");

// Save the document to DOCX format.
doc.Save(dir + "output.docx");

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