Xamarin Word Framework | C# Word APIs & Conversions

Overview

The Xamarin Word Framework is a high-performance and feature-rich framework that performs advanced Word document processing operations faster without Microsoft Office or interop dependencies. This framework offers a Word creation and editing library that allows you to create, read, and edit Word documents programmatically in Xamarin application. Its powerful conversion APIs make it easy to convert Word documents to PDF, HTML, RTF, and ODT formats.

Overview Diagram of Xamarin Word Framework

Why Syncfusion?

No Server Deployment Fees

There are no distribution fees, per-server licensing fees, or royalties, which makes the Xamarin Word processing solution very cost-effective.

Blazing Fast Performance

It is optimized for server environments where speed and low memory usage is critical.

Powerful and comprehensive APIs

All the elements in a typical Word document like text, formatting, images, shapes, and tables are accessible through a comprehensive set of APIs.

Proven Word Processing Solution

The Xamarin Word Framework (Essential DocIO) is a mature, proven product used in mission-critical applications for over 15 years.

Fully Documented

Xamarin Word framework comes with extensive documentation, a knowledge base, and samples. It only takes a few lines of code to create, view, or edit richly formatted Word documents.

Cross-Platform

Provides a single, uniform API across all platforms.

Word document - Create and edit using APIs

Create Word documents from scratch with text, formatting, images, shapes, tables, and more. Edit an existing Word document with just a few lines of code.

Mail merge in Xamarin Word documents

Mail merge

Generate reports like invoices, payrolls, and more, by performing mail merge faster in a batch process without Microsoft Office or interop dependencies.

Mail merge Documentation

Merge multiple Xamarin Word documents

Merge Documents

Merge multiple documents into a single document by importing content with several formatting options, like using destination styles, keeping source formatting, and more.

Merge Word Documents

Split Word document into multiple small documents in Xamarin

Split Documents

Split a document into multiple smaller documents based on sections, placeholder text, or any document element.

Split Word Documents

Edit bookmark contents in Xamarin Word document

Edit bookmark content

Navigate to a bookmark in the document and insert, edit, retrieve, or delete its content. This framework also supports replacing bookmarked content with text, part of a document, or an entire document.

Word Bookmark documentation

Find and replace text in Xamarin Word document

Find and Replace

Find text or text patterns using regular expressions, and then highlight or format it. You can also, replace the text or text pattern with other text, a part of a document, or an entire document.

Find and replace documentation

Tables in Xamarin Word document

Tables

Create, edit, and format simple and nested tables in a Word document. Polish the appearance of tables by applying built-in styles and conditional styling options.

Table support documentation

Styles and Formatting in Xamarin Word document

Styles and Formatting

Customize the appearance of the document with several formatting options at the text level and paragraph level, add bullets and numbering, create styles, and more.

Appearance documentation

Form filling in Xamarin Word document

Form Filling

Create fillable forms with legacy form fields and content controls in Word documents. Then, fill the form and extract the data from the form fields effortlessly.

Form Fields in Word Library

For more information, check out our Xamarin Word Library (Essential DocIO) features.

Word Conversions

The Xamarin Word framework can convert Word documents to PDF, RTF, TXT, HTML, and ODT formats. Also, it can convert RTF, TXT, and HTML files to Word documents.

Word documents to PDF conversion in Xamarin

Word to PDF

Convert Word documents to PDF for printing and viewing in a portable format. Various customization options are also supported.

Learn more about Word to PDF

Convert Word documents to images in Xamarin

Word to image

Convert Word documents to images (PNG, BMP, JPEG) for printing and viewing without any Word document viewer dependencies.

Learn more about Word to image

Convert Word documents to RTF and vice versa

Word to RTF

Convert Word documents to RTF for reading and editing rich text independently with any rich text editor. Also, convert RTF files to Word documents.

Word to RTF Documentation

Convert Word documents to Text and vice versa

Word to Text

Convert Word documents to plain text for reading and editing text. Also convert text files to Word documents.

Word to Text Documentation

Convert Word documents to HTML and vice versa

Word to HTML

Convert Word documents to HTML for viewing and printing HTML content with any browser. Also, convert XHTML 1.0 compliant HTML files to Word documents.

Word to HTML Documentation

Word documents to ODT conversion in Xamarin

Word to ODT

Convert Word documents to open document text (ODT) format. This format is used for maintaining the documents’ interoperability with Word processing applications like OpenOffice Writer.

Word to ODT Documentation

Xamarin Word Code Example

Easily get started with the Xamarin Word Library using a few simple lines of C# code example as demonstrated below. Also explore our Xamarin Word Library Example that shows you how to create and configure the Xamarin Word.

c#
using Syncfusion.DocIO;
using Syncfusion.DocIO.DLS;

//Creates an instance of WordDocument Instance (Empty Word Document)
WordDocument document = new WordDocument();
//Add a section & a paragraph in the empty document
document.EnsureMinimal();
//Append text to the last paragraph of the document
document.LastParagraph.AppendText("Hello World");
//Saves the Word document to MemoryStream
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
document.Save(stream, FormatType.Docx);
//Closes the document
document.Close();
//Save the stream as a file in the device and invoke it for viewing
Xamarin.Forms.DependencyService.Get<ISave>().SaveAndView("Result.docx", "application/msword", stream);

Frequently Asked Questions

✅ Why should you choose Syncfusion Xamarin Word Framework?

The Syncfusion Xamarin Word Framework supports the following features:

Create Word Documents from scratch.
Open, modify, and save existing Word documents.
Create and manipulate charts, shapes, and group shapes in DOCX and WordML format documents.
Read and write built-in and custom document properties and find and replace text with its original formatting.
Insert bookmarks and navigate corresponding bookmarks to insert, replace, and delete content.
Insert and edit the form fields and protect the document by restricting access.
Encrypt and decrypt Word documents.
One of the best Xamarin Word libraries on the market, offering a rich set of APIs to interact with the software.
Insert and extract OLE objects and run the DocIO applications in multi-thread and with thread safe program.
Extensive demos and documentation to learn quickly and get started with the Xamarin Word Framework.

✅ Can I download and utilize the Syncfusion Xamarin Word Framework for free?

No, this is a commercial product and requires a paid license. However, a free community license is also available for companies and individuals whose organizations have less than $1 million USD in annual gross revenue and five or fewer developers.