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How to render the Word document contents page by page as image using Essential DocIO?

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Essential DocIO supports to render the Word document contents page by page as images. You can save rendered page as raster (*.png, *.jpeg, *.bmp,*.tiff, *.gif, etc) or vector formats (*.emf, *.wmf, etc). Essential DocIO internally uses GDI+ functionality for rendering the Word document contents page by page. Hence this feature will be supported only in the .NET platforms which supports GDI+ functionality.

Below code snippets demonstrates how to render the Word document contents page by page as image using Essential DocIO.

C#:

// Loads the Word Document
WordDocument doc = new WordDocument(@"..\..\Template.docx");
 
// Converts the Word Document into images
Image[] image = doc.RenderAsImages(ImageType.Metafile);
 
//Saves the converted images in png file format to the file system 
for (int imageIndex = 0; imageIndex < image.Length; imageIndex++)
{
image[imageIndex].Save("WordToImage_"+imageIndex.ToString()+".png", ImageFormat.Png);
}

 

VB:

'Loads the Word Document
Dim doc As New WordDocument("..\..\Template.docx")
 
'Converts the Word Document into images
Dim image As Image() = doc.RenderAsImages(ImageType.Metafile)
 
'Saves the converted images in png file format to the file system 
For imageIndex As Integer = 0 To images.Length - 1
images(imageIndex).Save("WordToImage_" & imageIndex.ToString() & ".png",ImageFormat.Png)
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The below sample demonstrates on how to render the Word document contents page by page as images using Essential DocIO

Sample

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