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"Reading Microsoft word documents (word count)"

Hi,
I did some searching on this topic and found almost nothing on reading DOC and DOCX documents with 'Read Document' step. Is this possible without converting MS word document to a supported format (e.g. CSV,PDF, RTF, HTML)? I have 1000's of word documents so I would like to read them without pre-processing.

Regards,
Serge

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Marco_Boeck

Hi,

I'm afraid that is currently not possible.

Regards,
Marco

johan_CG

Hi

I have the same problem.
Currently I use a bash script to convert DOC and DOCX but I would like to avoid this pre-processing step.
Please let me know if you find something that can help.

Regards
Johan

MariusHelf

Unfortunately RapidMiner is not capable of dealing with Word documents natively. You have to use a command line tool to extract the text, e.g. antiword: http://www-stud.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~markus/antiword/

You can run the program from your RapidMiner process with the Execute Program operator.

Best regards,
Marius