# How to Work with Microsoft Word (Doc/Docx) Files in a Report Model

Astera supports the extraction of data from a wide range of unstructured file formats including PDF files, PDF forms, TXT, XLS/XLSX, PRN and RTF.

By integrating Astera with a third-party tool, a support for extracting unstructured data from a bulk load of MS Word doc/docx files can be established.

In this document, we will use an open-source tool *OfficeToPDF.exe* to convert MS Word documents into PDF files. We will orchestrate this process of conversion through the workflow component in Astera.

Following system requirements should be met in order to use *OfficeToPDF.exe*:

* .Net Framework 4
* Office 2016, 2013, 2010 or Office 2007

Read up more on *OfficeToPDF.exe* from [here](https://github.com/cognidox/OfficeToPDF).

## **Integration with Astera**

1. Download the zip folder: [*WordtoPDF.zip*](https://www.astera.com/Downloads/Misc/WordtoPDF.zip) and extract all three files shown below.

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2. On the Astera client, go to *File* menu in the menu bar at the top, click *Open* and point the path towards *Sample\_Workflow\.Wfs* extracted in the first step.

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The *Sample\_Workflow\.Wfs* will open in your application as shown below.

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Follow the steps below to configure this workflow.

3. Right-click on the *FilesToConvert* object and select *Properties* from the context menu. A configuration window will open.

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Here you need to provide the path to the source folder that contains all the doc/docx files. Apply the filter "**\*.doc\***" and click OK.

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4. Right-click on the header of *Exe\_FilePath* object and select *Properties* from the context menu. In the constant value box, paste the local path to *OfficeToPDF.exe*, extracted in the first step and click *OK*.

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5. Right-click on the header of *Bat\_FilePath* object and select *Properties* from the context menu . In the constant value box, paste the local path to *officetopdf.bat* Windows batch file, extracted in the first step.

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6. Right-click on the header of *RunExe* object to open its configuration window. Here, point the *Program Path* to the local path for *officetopdf.bat* Windows batch file.

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7. Click on the *Run Workflow* icon to execute this workflow. This will generate the PDF files for all .doc/.docx files residing in the folder specified in *FileSystem* object.

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Now, these PDF files can be loaded onto the Astera designer for creating an extraction template (report model) to extract the data.


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