parsing .doc word content?

[targa2000]

I need to parse the content of a .doc word file for metadata after the file in added to the alfresco repository.  What is the best way of doing this?

[openpj]

You can implement your own extracter in Alfresco:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Metadata_Extraction

Maybe it could be useful to parse the .doc word file using Apache POI:
http://poi.apache.org/

Alfresco includes Apache POI 3.1, so you can start to implement your extracter without adding any other libraries  :wink:

Hope this helps.