README.md

office-document-properties

Read document properties from Microsoft Office Open XML documents.

Introduction

Use this node module to read document properties and metadata from Microsoft Office Open XML documents (docx, docm, pptx, pptm, xlsx, xlsm).

Installation

To install via npm:

npm install office-document-properties --save

Usage

Import

var getDocumentProperties = require('office-document-properties');

Read Document Properties from File

getDocumentProperties.fromFilePath(filePath, function(err, data) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log(data);
  /*
  {
    application: 'Microsoft Macintosh Word',
    applicationVersion: '15.0000',
    characters: 20,
    comments: 'This is an example document for testing the retrieval of document properties.',
    company: 'Acme',
    created: '2017-09-06T17:32:00Z',
    createdBy: 'Microsoft Office User',
    keywords: 'Example Sample Test Properties',
    manager: 'John Doe',
    modified: '2017-10-13T19:26:00Z',
    modifiedBy: 'Microsoft Office User',
    pages: 1,
    paragraphs: 1,
    revision: 5,
    subject: 'Example',
    template: 'Normal.dotm',
    title: 'Test Word Document',
    totalTime: 8,
    words: 5
  }
  */
})

Read Document Properties from Buffer

getDocumentProperties.fromBuffer(buffer, function(err, data) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log(data);
  /*
  {
    application: 'Microsoft Macintosh PowerPoint',
    applicationVersion: '15.0027',
    comments: 'This is an example document for testing the retrieval of document properties.',
    company: 'Acme',
    created: '2017-10-13T15:54:58Z',
    createdBy: 'Microsoft Office User',
    keywords: 'Example Sample Test Properties',
    manager: 'Jane Doe',
    modified: '2017-10-13T19:27:15Z',
    modifiedBy: 'Microsoft Office User',
    notes: 0,
    paragraphs: 2,
    revision: 3,
    slides: 1,
    subject: 'Example',
    title: 'Test PowerPoint Document',
    totalTime: 2,
    words: 8
  }
  */
})