I just found a working docx to html converter using only javascript on github. The main code which converts docx to html is below. The issue is the page just has a button which on click or drag and choosing a word document, opens it as html. I want to specify a file location in the code so I can load it on the server for loading some documents from computer locally.
Code which converts docx to html and renders :
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>DocxJS Example</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.4.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.docxjs.com/js/build/latest.docxjs.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<input id="inputFiles" type="file" name="files[]" multiple="false">
<div id="loaded-layout" style="width:100%;height:800px;"></div>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
var $inputFiles = $('#inputFiles');
$inputFiles.on('change', function (e) {
var files = e.target.files;
var docxJS = new DocxJS();
docxJS.parse(
files[0],
function () {
docxJS.render($('#loaded-layout')[0], function (result) {
if (result.isError) {
console.log(result.msg);
} else {
console.log("Success Render");
}
});
}, function (e) {
console.log("Error!", e);
}
);
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
I tried changing var files = e.target.files; to var files = "C:/sda/path/to/docx"; but that didn't help.
I tried to change
var files = e.target.files;
to
var files = new Array(new File([""], "sample.docx"));
but it gives me OOXML parse error.
Update:
Lets say I have a file location variable in PHP and I wish to use that instead in the javascript code. How do I do it?
I also checked docx2html javascript code and here is the code for it:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="index.js"></script>
<script>
function test(input){
require("docx2html")(input.files[0]).then(function(converted){
text.value=converted.toString()
})
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="file" style="position:absolute;top:0" onchange="test(this)">
<br/>
<br/>
<textarea id="text"></textarea>
</body>
</html>
Same issue need input.files[0] here as well
Update: I am trying to use the method mentioned in the comments but encounter some errors:
var fil;
var getFileBlob = function (url, cb) {
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("GET", url);
xhr.responseType = "blob";
xhr.addEventListener('load', function() {
cb(xhr.response);
});
xhr.send();
};
var blobToFile = function (blob, name) {
blob.lastModifiedDate = new Date();
blob.name = name;
return blob;
};
var getFileObject = function(filePathOrUrl, cb) {
getFileBlob(filePathOrUrl, function (blob) {
cb(blobToFile(blob, 'test.docx'));
});
};
getFileObject('demo.docx', function (fileObject) {
console.log(fileObject);
fil = fileObject;
});
The error primarily was “Cross origin requests are only supported for HTTP.” before I used https://calibre-ebook.com/downloads/demos/demo.docx instead of just demo.docx in above file path. This however gives another error:
Cross origin requests are only supported for protocol schemes: http, data, chrome, chrome-extension, https, chrome-extension-resource.
which means chrome cannot load it. It needs to be working on a server. If someone can help providing a fix to make it work offline, let me know. The last method was asynchronous call.
