SMWord suite for Delphi/CBuilder is a native VCL components
for direct and fast text extraction from any MS Word document.
MSWordDocument component allow to read any Word document directly
without OLE automation of MS Word application (MS Word installed
is not required).
Direct text extraction allow to process large documents very-very fast.
Summary Information is available too.
You may use this component to provide a search engine - for example,
find document where some substring is occured or to display summary
information and text preview in own file manager.

• Fast Document Viewer 1.82
  This tool allow to read/open the MS Excel, MS Word, Word Perfect, MS Write, Lotus 1-2-3, QuattroPro files and Paradox, dBase, Clipper, FoxPro, DBISAM, Advantage database on any...

• Aspose.Words for .NET 13.2.0.0
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