read docx file with javascript in sharepoint

Question

i'm trying to read docx file

(function(){
var serverRelativeUrlOfMyFile = "/sites/sitecollection/mysite/assets/file.docx";
var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.onreadystatechange=handler;
req.open("GET", serverRelativeUrlOfMyFile, true); // params: (method, url, async)
req.send();
function handler(){
    if(req.readyState == 4 && req.status == 200){
        // you can now access the file content via the responseText property
        return req.responseText;
    }
}})();

But instead of text I get symbols. I need to get only text.

Answer 1

According to this answer on StackOverflow, you can do that with a JavaScript library called docxtemplater.

There are also other JS libraries out there to work with docx files.

After some quick research, it seems like docx4js can also read the contents of a file.

I personally use docx.js to generate documents, but I'm not sure if it can read the contents of an existing doc.