Opening large files takes an excissve amount of time

[Gareth]

I'm currently evaluating the DocIO using the free trial, and the other File Format libraries as well, for use in a document achieve system.

The issue I'm having is when opening large files, my test file has 1400 pages of text and images which total 150MB, the process takes over 110 seconds. Is there anyway I can reduce this time to something that is less than 30 seconds? It would also help if the memory footprint could be reduced as well. Currently I'm running the code through a console application written in C#, but the plan is to move it to a library that is called by an ASP.NET site. At the moment the current performance is a major issue for me.

I've had a look at this forum, and used Google, and the only advice I've seen so far is to split the file into smaller ones. Unfortunetly this isn't an option for the application I'm working on, as I have no control over the documents my users will archive.

Any help that can be provided would be appreciated.

[Gareth]

To clarify the file that is causing me issues is a Word 97-2003 file. If I convert it, the size reduces and DocIO process it well within a reasonable time.

[Sarathkumar V]

Hi Gareth,

Thank you for using Syncfusion products.

Please provide the input Word document, currently installed Essential Studio version and code snippet or your work flow which was used at your end. This will help us to investigate further on the reported performance issue and find out the exact cause of the issue at the earliest.

Regards,
Sarath 

[Gareth]

Hi Sarath,

Unfortunetly I am unable to provide document that I'm having difficulties with due to confidentiality rules.

The code that I am using is:
using (FileStream filestream = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
    using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument(filestream, FormatType.Automatic))
    {
        TextWatermark textWatermark = new TextWatermark()
        {
            Size = 10,
            FontName = "Arial Black",
            Color = Color.Gray,
            Layout = WatermarkLayout.Diagonal,
            Semitransparent = false,
            Text = watermarkText
        };

        document.Watermark = textWatermark;

        document.Save(filePath.Replace(".doc", "6.doc"), document.ActualFormatType);

        document.Close();
    }

    filestream.Close();
}

I found switching to opening the file via a file stream reduced the opening time by 10 seconds. But the conversion from stream to WordDocument is still taking one minute forty seconds.

The version of FileFormat that I'm using is "SyncFusion Essential Studio 14.1.0.41"

[Sarathkumar V]

Hi Gareth,

Thank you for your update.

For further analysis, we have created Word 97-2003 format test case Word document with 1400 pages of text and images which total of 187 MB and tested this test case document using the code snippet which you have provided. The whole process(opening and saving) has been completed within 20 sections and please find the machine configuration details which we have tested this scenario from the below:

OS : Windows 10
RAM : 8 GB
Processor : Intel Core i5


On further analysis, we suspect that the reported performance issue is raised specific to some elements present in your input Word document used. So, please provide the duplicate copy of the input Word document with dummy content in the place of your confidential data along with your machine configuration details such OS, RAM and processor to reproduce the performance issue in our side. This will help us to analyze the exact cause of the issue and to provide a solution at the earliest.

Regards,
Sarath