Edit and save word document in browser

Question

Hi,

Users can upload word document and those are saved in project folder.

My requirement is user can edit and save uploaded word document in browser. After save the word content need to export it as pdf.

I have tried to convert word document content to html and showing it in editor. But images and some alignments are not properly coming. I have used Syncfusion, Aspose but those not give me correct solution.

I have also checked for Microsoft apis but those need to be save file in cloud, in my requirement file must be save in project folder not in onedrive, sharepoint, cloud etc.

Any ideas will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Ajay.

Answer 1

My requirement is user can edit and save uploaded word document in browser

Do you mean the same functionality like Office Online or Google docs?

Large developer teams invest several personal years of development to implement it and you want to do the same by simply write some line of code? You are tough.

Answer 2

Hi @Ajay Kalidindi

At first I thought the most functional version of CKEditor could upload word files, but I later found out that it couldn't. In fact, the problem is that there is a problem in the process of converting the word file into an html file. I tried several methods and found a common problem: some Word features cannot be converted to HTML exactly.

For example, I have an image in Word, and when it is converted to an HTML file, its tag is <img> but does not attach a positional style. The problem caused by this is that the image is not in the correct position. Similarly, there are some paragraph and font styles in Word that cannot be perfectly accurate and accurately replaced with HTML.

So my advice here is this: there may be relevant packages that can achieve a perfect conversion. If you want to implement this function, you can refer to the source code of some open source conversion packages to modify some problems in the conversion process. But I think it's a very huge project.

Best regards,

Qi You

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