Extract hyperlinks from Microsoft Office Word documents Leave feedback

To extract hyperlinks from Microsoft Office Word document GetStructure method is used. This method returns XML representation of the document. Hyperlinks are represented by “hyperlink” tag; “link” attribute contains hyperlink’s URL. For more details, see Extract text structure. Hyperlink can contain a text:

<hyperlink link="www.google.com">google.com</hyperlink>

Warning

GetStructure method returns null value if text structure extraction isn’t supported for the document. For example, text structure extraction isn’t supported for TXT files. Therefore, for TXT file GetStructure method returns null. If Microsoft Office Word document has no text, GetStructuremethod returns an empty XmlReader object.

Here are the steps to extract hyperlinks from Microsoft Office Word documents:

• Instantiate Parser object for the initial document;
• Call GetStructure method and obtain XmlReader object;
• Iterate through the XML document.

The following example demonstrates how to extract hyperlinks from Microsoft Office Word document:

// Create an instance of Parser class
using (Parser parser = new Parser(filePath))
{
    // Get the reader object for the document XML representation
    using (XmlReader reader = parser.GetStructure())
    {
        // Iterate over the document
        while (reader.Read())
        {
            // If it is the start tag of the hyperlink
            if (reader.IsStartElement() && reader.Name == "hyperlink")
            {
                // Print the link attribute
                Console.WriteLine(reader.GetAttribute("link"));
            }
        }
    }
}

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

• GroupDocs.Parser for .NET examples
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