Can Java POI write image to word document?

Question

Anyone know if it is possible? And got any sample code for this? Or any other java API that can do this?

Answer 1

The Office 2007 format is based on XML and so can probably be written to using XML tools. However there is this library which claims to be able to write DocX format word documents.

The only other alternative is to use a Java-COM Bridge and use COM to manipulate word. This is probably not a good idea though - I would suggest finding a simpler way.

For example, Word can easily read RTF documents and you can generate .rtf documents from within Java. You don't have to use the Microsoft Word format!

Answer 2

As others have said POI isn't going to allow you to do anything really fancy - plus it doesn't support Office 2007+ formats. Treating MS Word as a component that provides this type of functionality via COM is most likely the best approach here (unless you are running on a non-Windows OS or just can't guarantee that Word will be installed on the machine).

If you do go the COM route, I recommend that you look into the JACOB project. You do need to be somewhat familiar with COM (which has a very steep learning curve), but the library works quite well and is easier than trying to do it in native code with a JNI wrapper.