The Good Tech Companies - The Top C# .NET Word API Libraries

Episode Date: November 12, 2024

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This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. The Top C Sharp, NetWord API Libraries, by MESCIUS Inc. Companies in every industry use Microsoft Word to create and manipulate nearly every kind of document. The ability to create accurate and well-formatted documents as quickly as possible has become a standard part of how businesses operate. In many cases, this requires that they use document processing solutions that can be scaled as needed and that can efficiently handle the multitude of actions required to produce the documents. In the net environment, C-sharp, net word API libraries are used to integrate the C-valuable capabilities

into almost any project that requires word document processing. This article will explore some of the most popular C-sharp, NetWord API libraries, review the elements that make Microsoft Word such a powerful word processing tool, and compare the leading options. We will examine the following features and functionalities programmatically create, load, modify, save, or inspect MS Word documents. Read write support for DOCX, DOTM, DOCM, and DOTX file formats. Read only support for flat OPC, flat OPC macro enabled, flat OPC template, and flat OPC template enabled formats. Export documents to PDF or image formats, with support for RTL, vertical, and East Asian texts. Report, data, templates to create data-bound documents. Support for built-in and user-defined character, paragraph, and table styles, list templates, and themes. Shape and geometry type

presets and themed shape styles. Image insertion with various formatting options, find and replace functionality, office math support, document solutions for Word by MESCIUS. Programmatically create, load, modify, save, or inspect MS Word documents you can generate, load, edit, and save Word documents. Capabilities include loading existing DOCX files and editing the files by changing elements such as text, formatting, and theme colors. You can also copy paragraphs, merge documents, and execute many other types of modifications. Read-write support for docx, dotm, docm, and dotx file formats There is full support for docx, dot DOTM, DOCM, and DOTX files. You're also able to export documents to PDF and PDF, A formats as well as enable password protection for those formats.

Read-only support for FLATOPC, FLATOPCL-E-D, F-L-A-T-O-P-C-T-E-M-P-L-A-T-E, A-N-D-F-L-A-T-O-P-C-T-E-M-P-L-A-T-E-N-A-B-L-E-D formats you can read files with flat open XML formats, easily accessing application data. Export documents to PDFOR image formats, with support for RTL, vertical, A-N-D-E-A-S-T Asian texts you can use Tate Chuyoko and East Asian vertical text in DOCX files while maintaining the formatting when exporting those documents to PDF or image formats. The image formats include TIFF, JPG, PNG, and SVG. Report, data, templates to create data-bound documents populate report templates for documents, like invoices, legal agreements, and contracts, by binding them to data sources.

The templates can be converted to PDF or multiple image formats and include advanced layout features like tables, repeating multi-table rows, and much more. Support for built-in and user-defined character, paragraph, and table styles, list templates, and the Mies customize your documents with built-in and user-defined styles for document elements, including themes, text, paragraphs, tables, and lists. You can also choose font fill and line styles as well as create linked styles for paragraphs and character runs. Shape and geometry type preset, theme shape styles use a wide range of geometric shapes, shape presets, and theme-based shape styles to enrich your Word documents. There are 188 geometry types, 42 the med shape styles, and 29 shape presets. Image insertion with various formatting options you can add images to documents and edit the images by adjusting color, transparency, contrast, and brightness. The images can be imported from data files and streams. Find and replace functionality This functionality includes multiple options,

such as locating and replacing all occurrences of a specific text, finding and replacing text and its content. Andre placing placeholders with data in a template. You can also insert the body of a document at a found text in another document. OFFICEMATH support display, add, read, and edit Office Math content in Word documents. There is also support for converting Office Math to MathML in the reverse. Document Solutions for Word, DS Word, provides a comprehensive set of features and functionalities that facilitate document processing just as well as MS Word. The C-sharp NetWord API library emulates the perfect MS Word stand-in. It can handle tasks like exporting Word documents to PDF format while preserving text formatting. You can set custom document

properties, adjusting the style options for characters, paragraphs, tables, and lists to maintain control of the appearance and function of your document. The API also allows you to add content from the vast selection of geometric shapes. Documents can be customized even further with the addition of images, formatted as needed. The process for populating report templates is made efficient with the data binding feature. You can also use Office Math just as you would in MS Word. Even with its vast range of features and functionalities, D's Word is very simple at use. It can efficiently handle all the Word document processing tasks your net project requires. Expose words for net,matically create, load, modify,

save, or inspect MS Word documents. Expose, Words4, Net allows you to generate, modify, convert, render, and print documents. There is no need for office automation tools or third-party applications. Read-write support for DOCX, DOTM, DOCM, and DOTX file formats read-write support includes DOC, DOCX, DOTM, and DOTX. There is also read-only support for DOC pre-Word 60 for documents in the Word 6 or Word 95 format. Read-only support for FLATOPC, FLATOPC MACROENABLED, FLATOPC TEMPLATE, AND FLATOPC TEMPLATEENABLED formats users can load and save flat OPC, flat OPC macro enabled, flat OC template, and flatOPC template-enabled formats. Export documents to PDFOR image formats, with support for RTL, vertical, and EAST Asian texts espose. Word's layout engines work similarly to MS Word's page layout engine. Users can print to PDF, JPEG, and PNG image formats with RTL, vertical, and East Asian

texts displayed properly. However, you must use and install TrueType fonts in the machine where you are converting the documents. Report, Data, Templates To create data-bound documents, there are predefined templates for reports, contracts, invoices, and other forms that can be linked to data sources, such as databases or business objects. Support for built-in and user-defined character, paragraph, and table styles, list templates, and the Mies users can customize their documents by using a collection of built-in end-user-defined styles for characters, paragraphs, and tables. They can also define their own versions of these items. Shape and geometry type presets and themed shape styles expose.

Words provides shape types and styles. Its shapes class includes numerous geometric shapes as well as an auto-shape, textbox, freeform, ol-object, activeX control, and picture. Image insertion with various formatting options end-users can insert images in JPG, PNG, GIF, TIif, tiff, emf, svg, and more. Formatting options include alignment and cropping, among others. Find and replace functionality The search and replace function can speed up formatting tasks. OFFICEMATH support you can manage office math objects, determining how it is displayed,

justified, inline, separate line, etc. Aspose provides developers with plenty of features. It has expansive Word file compatibility so that you can migrate between MS Office versions with no hassle. It enables many actions required to handle the files, including conversion and printing. The ability to output to other formats while maintaining the original formatting of the Word document is an advantage of the library. Numerous templates are available for report creation, and the data binding capability adds efficiency. ASPOSE enables simple document customization with a large style selection of options for numerous elements, including images, characters, layouts, and lists. It is a versatile API library suitable for net projects with intensive document processing tasks.

Syncfusion Essential DOCIO. Programmatically create, load, modify, save, or inspect MS Word documents. End-users can create, convert, read, and write MS Word documents. Read-write support for DOCX, DOTM, DOCM, and DOTX file formats Essential DOCIO Library provides read-write support for DOC, DOT, DOCX, DOTX, DOCM, DOTM, WordML, and RTF file formats. There is also conversion capability to TML, Markdown, PDF, and image. Read-only support for FLATOPC, FLATOPC MACROENABLED, FLATOPC TEMPLATE, AND FLATOPC TEMPLATEENABLED formats Syncfusion Essential DOCIO does not offer read-only support for these formats. Export documents to PDFOR image formats with support for RTL, vertical, ANDEAST Asian texts you can export Word documents as a high-quality image,

PDF file, and EPUB with support for RTL, vertical, and East Asian texts. Report, Data, Templates To create data-bound documents, you can create templates and use built-in elements, like form filling and mail merge, to populate the forms. You can also design reports using Microsoft Word and use DOCIO to dynamically populate them with data. Support for built-in and user-defined character, paragraph, and table styles, list templates, and the Mies.io provides predefined styles for characters, paragraphs, lists, and tables. Users can also create customized styles,

shape and geometry type presets and themed shape styles. You can use preset and user-defined shapes and geometry in DOCX and WordML format documents. You can also apply the same formatting properties for children of group shapes. Image insertion with various formatting options Doc.io provides support for both inline and absolute positioned images in multiple formats such as JPG and PNG. It also provides formatting options like rotation, find and replace functionality, locate and change specific text throughout an entire document. You can search for a particular text you'd like to change and replace it with another text or part of the document.

OFFICEMATH support the NetWord library doesn't provide Office Math support. Instead, IT provides WMath DOM and LaTeX to create and edit equations or formulas in Word. Syncfusion Essential Doshio's object model is flexible and simple to use. It supports multiple document formats and provides the capabilities for efficiently handling those documents. You can create Word documents from scratch and convert them to other formats, including PDF and HTML. Essential DOCIO enables developers to perform many essential document processing tasks. You can generate and fill in report templates with features like mail merge and form filling. However, you will run into issues with reading XML files as the library does not appear to support flat OPC or other XML formats.

Telerik Document Processing, Words Processing Library, programmatically create, load, modify, save, or inspect MS Word documents the library lets users create, edit, export, and convert various MS Word document formats. Read-write support for DOCX, DOTM, DOCM, and DOTX file formats There is read-write support for DOC and DOCX formats. There is currently no support for DOTM, DOCM, and DOTX files. Read-only support for FLATOPC, FLATOPC MACROENABLED, FLATOPC TEMPLATE, AND FLATOPC TEMPLATEENABLED formats. Telerik Words Processing Library does not offer read-only support for these formats. Export documents to PDFOR image formats with support for for RTL, vertical, and EAST Asian texts you can export to PDF, but there is no support for RTL. Support for vertical or East Asian texts is unclear.

Report, data, templates to create data-bound documents. Telerik Words Processing Library does not appear to offer report template functionality. Support for built-in and user-defined character, paragraph, and table styles, list templates, and the Mies the library supports predefined style definitions for characters, paragraphs, and tables. You can specify elements like fonts, colors, and graphic effects with document themes. There is also support for list templates, shape and geometry type presets and themed shape styles. There are shape and geometry type presets. However, when exporting to formats other than DOCX,

the shapes will be lost. Image insertion with various formatting options. There is support for 12 image formats, including JPEG, ICON, and SVG. You can adjust image attributes such as size, rotation, and source. Find and replace functionality The library enables you to search for a string and replace all matches. You can also replace only the styling of the matches. OFFICEMATH support There is no support for inserting equations and formulas, including office math. Telerik's word processing library is not as fleshed out as other NetWord libraries. For example, the MS Word native file format compatibility is limited to DOC and DOCX. There is no support for flat files or any capability to insert formulas and equations using

Office Math or other math topography components. However, it does provide a full range of actions to handle select MS Word formats. Devs will find the functionality to format and customize documents with an array of built-in and user-defined style definitions for various document elements. There is a selection of images available for insertion in Word files, plus options to customize them with multiple formatting choices. DOCX files can be further enriched with shapes and geometric types, as needed, but those features will be lost if you need to export to another format. While Telerik's word processing library lacks some key functionalities, it can still meet the needs of document processing centered on the DOCX format. Spire, DOC4, NET, programmatically create, load, modify, save, or inspect MS Word documents you can create, convert, read, write, compare, and print MS Word documents.

Read-write support for DOCX, DOTM, DOCM, and DOTX file formats SPIRE. DOC supports Word 97-2003, 2007-2010, 2013, 2016-2019 files. Read-only support for FLATOPC, FLATOPC MACROENABLED, FLATOPC TEMPLATE-E-N-A-B-L-E-D formats spire. DOC does not offer read-only support for these formats. Export documents to PDF or image formats, with support for RTL, vertical, A-N-D-E-A-S-T Asian texts The library supports RTL in Word documents but not when they are converted to PDF or image formats. Report, Data, Templates To create data-bound documents you can create report templates programmatically and use mail merge to fill in the data.

There does not appear to be any built-in templates available. Support for built-in and user-defined character, paragraph, and table styles, list templates, and the Mies you can use document themes as well as predefined character, paragraph, table, and list styles to customize documents. Shape and geometry type presets and themed shape styles users can insert predefined shapes and geometry types. You can also create shape groups that share the same shape styles. Image insertion with various formatting options you can customize word documents with images including jpg png and svg formats as well as set attributes like transparency size wrapping styles and position find and replace functionality the library provides find and replace functions to

speed up the editing process officem ath support there is no office math capability, but the library does support latex math symbols and MathML code. With its capabilities, Spire, Doc4, Net is a suitable option for Word document processing projects. The API is useful to process many of the native MS Word file formats through 2019. There is support for advanced formatting with styles and images. While there is no Office Math support, Spire Doc supports Latex Math and MathML code, which are viable alternatives. Though support for data binding with templates is missing, the API does enable mail merge to help populate the document. Editing can be streamlined with the find and Replace function. There is functionality to export to PDF and image formats, but as with some other APIs,

the output cannot maintain advanced features like RTL, Vertical, or East Asian texts. Despite its limitations, Spire.doc4.net still offers a solid platform for managing less complex Word documents. Gembox.documentbox document programmatically create load modify save or inspect ms word documents the component enables users to read write convert and print ms word files read write support for docx dotm docm and dotx file formats for native MS Word formats, read-write support is limited to DOC and DOCX. There is also support for ODT, PDF, PDF, A, XPS, HTML, RTF, XML, and TXT formats. F-L-A-T-O-P-C-M-A-C-R-O-E-N-A-B-L-E-D F-L-A-T-O-P-C-T-E-M-P-L-A-T-E A-N-D-F-L-A-T-O-P-C-T-E-M-P-L-A-T-E-E-N-A-B-L-E-D formats GEMBOX Document does not offer read-only support for these formats.

Export documents to PDF-OR image formats, with support for RTL, vertical, A-N-D-E-A-S-T Asian texts documents can be exported to PDF and image formats, with support for RTL, vertical, and EAST Asian texts documents can be exported to PDF and image formats with support for RTL texts. Report, data, templates to create data-bound documents. There are no built-in report templates, but you can upload template files thought they've predefined layouts, formatting, and styles and use mail merge to populate them. Support for built-in and user defined character, paragraph, and table styles, list templates, and the Mies you can use themes as well as predefined style definitions for paragraphs, characters, lists, and tables or

create and edit your own. Shape and geometry type preset, themed shape styles there are preset shape types and geometric objects, line curves, triangles, rectangles, etc. The shapes and geometric objects organized into groups adhere to the group's layout and styling. Image insertion with various formatting options image compatibility covers PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, SVG, EMF, and WMF with formatting capability for position and size. Find and Replace Functionality Gembox provides the find and replace function to replace specified strings with updated strings. There is also functionality to replace strings with hyperlinks, pictures, tables, and other content. OFFICEMATH support there is no office math support,

but the library provides a preservation feature that allows you to preserve unsupported features, in this case, equations, from input to output in the same format. Gembox document is a straightforward component that enables improved file processing capability for any project. It is not as expansive as other NetWord API libraries, but you will find the tools you need for basic document processing. There are built-in templates that can be customized and populated using mail merge. The find and replace functionality allows you to not only replace text with other text but also with other content like images and hyperlinks. While there is no Office Math support,

you can maintain Math symbolsmbols in existing Word documents. The main highlight of the library is its simplicity and uncomplicated design. There are some limitations, such as the lack of a Math Topography feature, but this library is still suitable for basic Word documents. PlumSol Documents, programmatically create, load, modify, save, OR inspect MS Word documents create, save, and convert select MS Word documents. Read-write support for DOCX, DOTM, DOCM, and DOTX file formats There is read-write support for DOC and DOCX file formats. Support for CSV filesys read-only Read-only support for FLATOPC, FLATOPC MACROENABLED,

FLATOPC TEMPLATE, AND FLATOPC TEMPLATE ENABLED formats Plumsel documents does not offer read-only support for these formats. Export documents to PDFOR image formats with support for RTL, vertical, ANDEAST Asian texts you can convert Word, DOC and DOCX to PDF with some support for maintaining text formatting. Report, data, templates to create data-bound documents. There are numerous pre-formatted, editable report templates that can be automatically populated from data collected from a web form, CRM, ERP, or other apps. Support for built-in and user-defined character, paragraph, and table styles, list templates, and the means there is limited built-in style support for lists. Shape and geometry type preset, theme shape Styles Plumsel Documents does not appear to offer support for

shape and geometry type presets or styles. Image Insertion With various formatting options you can add images to DOCX templates with formatting options that include flipping, stretching, resizing, and rotation. Find and Replace Functionality Strings in templates can be changed with the Replace Value Formatter. OFFICEMATH support. There is no support available for Office Math with Plumsel documents. You can execute standard actions for Word documents, such as create, save, merge, and convert,

but customization seems limited. There does not appear to be support for adding shapes and personalizing characters, paragraphs, or tables. There is no office math support or support for an equivalent. You can replace strings in documents and convert documents to PDF formats. There is also some support for lists. The primary focus of Plumsel documents seems to be templates. The template creation process is simple and fast with many built-in templates available if required. The templates can be bound to data sources like webforms.

Simple customizations for these templates, like images, are also offered. Conclusion When choosing the Topsy-sharp NetWord API library, the Word document management needs of your project should always be the priority. While it's true that all of these libraries are popular choices among developers, Document Solutions Forward by MESCIUS stands out as the ideal solution for working with Word documents programmatically in a net environment with its wide range of essential Word-like features and functionalities. You can use Document Solutions for Word to work with all the popular Word file formats, including macro-enabled

and template files. The API's file compatibility also extends to reading flat OPC files. Customization of Word documents is a notable benefit. There are numerous built-in style options for document elements, like text, paragraphs, and lists, to create almost any type of document. Documents can be enriched with images, tables, numerous geometric shapes, mathematical equations, and more. Personalization is a key benefit, as you can create customized styles for many of these elements. Document Solutions for Word provides these features and numerous options for them. You're also able to use the Find and Replace feature in more ways than you would with

other. NetWord API libraries to streamline the editing process. Another highlight is that document solutions for Word integrates seamlessly with PDF files so that users can take advantage of this universal format. You can export to PDF and image formats with the assurance of maintaining the original format, even for documents that include languages with top-to-bottom and right-to-left layouts. The API also facilitates how well you can create and customize templates. It streamlines the data population process with its data binding feature, and as with the other supported Word formats, you can export the files to PDF and image files while maintaining formatting.

While a SPO's, Word's for, Net is a formidable alternative, Document Solutions forward by MESCIUS is a feature-rich, easy-to-learn C-sharp. Net API library, ideal for any Net project requiring Word document management capabilities. Whether you need to perform basic operations or are seeking advanced features, Document Solutions for Word meets the needs of nearly any project for document processing. Thank you for listening to this Hackernoon story, read by Artificial Intelligence. Visit hackernoon.com to read, write, learn and publish.