.NET API to Process Word Files

Convert a Document

Render a Document to Fixed-layout Formats

Compare Documents

Clone a Document

Join documents: insert and append

Split Files

Find and replace text

Protect or Encrypt a Document

Work with Digital Signatures

Mail Merge and Reporting

Add Watermark to a Document

Work with Tables

LINQ Reporting Engine

Format All Document Elements

Work with Comments and Revisions

Convert a Document in C#

API allows you to quickly, reliably and efficiently convert a file from one supported format to another with just two lines of code. It is so simple!

// Load DOCX file to be converted
var wrdf = new Aspose.Words.Document(dir + "template.docx");

// Convert DOCX to PDF
wrdf.Save(dir + "output.pdf", Aspose.Words.SaveFormat.Pdf);

// Load DOCX file to be converted
var wrdf = new Aspose.Words.Document(dir + "template.docx");

// Convert DOCX to HTML
wrdf.Save(dir + "output.html", Aspose.Words.SaveFormat.Html);

// Load PDF file to be converted
var wrdf = new Aspose.Words.Document(dir + "template.pdf");

// Convert PDF to JPG
wrdf.Save(dir + "output.jpeg", Aspose.Words.SaveFormat.Jpeg);

See more details on the Conversion page.

Render, Print or View Files

Aspose.Words for .NET has its own rendering engine specifically designed to render and print documents with highest fidelity. Using this feature, developers can render (draw) any page onto a .NET Graphics object while specifying the size and zoom level to create thumbnails for displaying images in a browser. Moreover, API is fully integrated with the .NET printing infrastructure and has the ability to completely customize the process so that developers can easily print or preview documents in their own applications.

Some of the rendering capabilities that API can perform:

• Render pages or complete documents to PDF, XPS or SWF
• Print a document programmatically or using dialogs
• Convert document pages into image previews including but not limited to PNG, EMF, JPEG, GIF
• Manage fonts and font substitutions to better match the original Word document
• Save a document to multi-page TIFF
• Render pages or shapes to a .NET Graphics object with transforms
• Convert document shapes into raster or vector images

Programming with Documents Using Document Object Model (DOM)

Aspose.Words for .NET allows you to create, build and modify documents, including document formatting, using an intuitive Document Object Model (DOM) with over 100 classes.

Here are just a few of the manipulation functions that the Words API can perform:

• Work with whole documents: compare documents, clone documents, find and replace text, combine documents or document parts, split documents into parts and so on
• Protect and encrypt documents, add a digital signature or watermark
• Manage all elements including sections, headers, footers, paragraphs, lists, tables, text, fields and much more
• Specify detailed formatting for any element, including shapes, text boxes, images, OLE objects, and controls
• Work with complex and deeply nested expressions containing IF blocks, formulas and other fields

Reporting and Mail Merge

Aspose.Words for .NET provides an extended API syntax for mail merge fields to perform more complex operations during mail merge. You can perform a simple mail merge operation or mail merge with regions. Data for mail merge operation can come from various data tables, array of values supported by ADO .NET or custom data sources.

In addition, developers can use the LINQ Reporting Engine to generate documents from templates and data from a variety of sources, including databases, XML, JSON, OData, CLR custom type objects, external documents, and more right out of the box.

// load the template containing merged fields

var wfle = new Aspose.Words.Document(dir + "template.doc");

// fill the fields with user data

wfle.MailMerge.Execute(

    new string[] { "FullName", "Company", "Deparment", "City" },
    
    new object[] { "John Doe", "Aspose", "Sales", "London" });

// save the result

wfle.Save(dir + "merged.doc");

No Need for Microsoft Office Automation

You can work with documents programmatically without installing any other third-party application. This is possible because the library is built using managed code. Therefore, you do not need to install Microsoft Office or Microsoft Word on your computer to work with Word formats. It is a perfect alternative to Microsoft Office Automation in terms of supported features, security, stability, scalability, speed, and price.