cannot open password protected documents (doc - Word 97 - Word 2003)

[Dimitrios Kasdovasilis]

Hello,

i have the problem that I cannot open password protected documents (doc - Word 97 - Word 2003) with the library Syncfusion.DocIO (19.3.0.44). I get the exception "Specified password "xxxxx" is incorrect!".

With docx documents (Word 2007+) decryption works without problems.

According to the feature matrix on your homepage decryption of doc documents should be possible.

"Encrypt documents and open password-protected documents" has a green check mark on Word 97-2003.

https://www.syncfusion.com/word-framework/net/word-library

In this forum post one of your collaborators writes that you do not plan to implement this feature:

https://www.syncfusion.com/forums/162042/syncfusion-docio-base-new-worddocument-to-encrypted-doc-file

We bought a license with the knowledge that this feature is included.

Many greetings

Steven Herfurth

medatixx GmbH & Co. KG

[Lokesh Baskar]

Hi Dimitrios,

Thank you for contacting Syncfusion support.

We regret for the inconveniences caused, currently DocIO does not have support to decrypt and open strongly encrypted DOC format Word documents. We don’t have any plans to implement this feature.

As we are concentrating to add DOCX file format specific features, there is no plan for adding this feature for DOC file format. We have support to open the strongly encrypted Word documents in DOCX format. So, we recommend you use the DOCX file format by convert using Microsoft Word application, to achieve your requirement.

Note: We will update the Home page content based on the above details in our end.

Please let us know if you have any other queries.

Regards,
Lokesh B