Convert HTML to Word using Java

Convert HTML to Word using Java

This blog post will teach you how to convert HTML to Word DOC or DOCX using Java programmatically. Fortunately, this Java library offers instant file processing, manipulation, and conversions. You can install this library easily without any external dependencies. In addition, there is comprehensive documentation available regarding its installation and usage. Microsoft Word documents are the most widely used file formats of the current time. Therefore, we will demonstrate the conversion process of an HTML Web page or Website to Word step by step.

We will cover the following points:

Convert HTML to Word DOCX using Java - API Installation#

This Java DOCX library provides a huge stack of features that boost up the file conversion processes. It gives you control over data and file manipulation tasks. To enable this library in your Java application, download the jar files or you can follow the following Maven configurations.

Repository

 AsposeJavaAPI Aspose Java API https://repository.aspose.com/repo/

Dependency

 com.aspose aspose-words 21.11 pom

How to Convert WebPage to Word DOCX or DOC Programmatically in Java#

Converting an HTML page into a Word document programmatically is super simple. You can achieve this functionality by following a couple of steps mentioned below.

  1. Create an instance of the Document class and load a source HTML file.
  2. Call the save(java.lang.String fileName, int saveFormat) method to save the file in DOCX format.

Copy & paste the following code into your Java file to convert an HTML file to a Word DOCX file using Java.

HTML to Word Document Converter Java Library - Advanced Features#

In this section, we will explore advanced features such as setting document quality, setting up a password, and more.

You may go through the following steps and the code snippets to learn about further methods:

  1. Create an instance of the Document class and load a source HTML file.
  2. protect(int type, java.lang.String password) method will enable you to set a password to protect the document from any changes.
  3. unprotect() will remove the password.
  4. Set this setTrackRevisions method to True if changes are tracked when this document is edited in Microsoft Word.
  5. Spelling errors will be highlighted if the setShowSpellingErrors method is True.
  6. setShowGrammaticalErrors method will highlight the grammatical errors if True.
  7. removeAllChildren removes all the child nodes of the current node.
  8. Instantiate an instance of DocSaveOptions class.
  9. Invoke the setUseHighQualityRendering method to set a value determining whether or not to use high-quality (i.e. slow) rendering algorithms.
  10. Call the save(java.lang.String fileName, int saveFormat) method to save the file in DOCX format.

The sample code below shows how to convert HTML to Word DOCX document with advanced options using Java:

Get a Free License#

You can get a free temporary license to try the API without evaluation limitations.

Summing up#

This brings us to the end of this blog post. We have covered how to convert HTML to Word DOCX using Java. Moreover, you can find the steps and the code snippets for this feature in the sections above. In addition, you may visit documentation for the other features that can be beneficial for your HTML to Word DOCX Converter. Finally, conholdate.com is writing new blog posts on other topics. Therefore, please stay in touch for regular updates.

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