WORK IN PROGRESS I mean it can't read whole document for now.
Forked from: https://github.com/micaelAlastor/doc-to-text
OLD README: Atm your best chance to extract text from .doc file is to use catdoc command tool with some simple Go code as follows:
func TestCatDoc(t *testing.T) {
path := filepath.Join("testdata", "file-sample_100kB.doc")
fileData, err := ioutil.ReadFile(path)
if err != nil {
t.Error(err)
}
cmd := exec.Command("catdoc")
stdin, err := cmd.StdinPipe()
if err != nil {
t.Error(err)
}
go func() {
defer stdin.Close()
_, err := io.WriteString(stdin, string(fileData))
if err != nil {
t.Error(err)
}
}()
out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
if err != nil {
t.Error(err)
}
fmt.Printf("%s\n", out)
}pure go library to read text from .doc files without using any external tools, commands etc