The Xamarin Word Framework is a high-performance and feature-rich framework that performs advanced Word document processing operations faster without Microsoft Office or interop dependencies. This framework offers a Word creation and editing library that allows you to create, read, and edit Word documents programmatically in Xamarin application. Its powerful conversion APIs make it easy to convert Word documents to PDF, HTML, RTF, and ODT formats.
READ & WRITE: DOC, DOT, DOCX, DOTX, DOCM, DOTM, WordML, RTF, HTML, TXT
There are no distribution fees, per-server licensing fees, or royalties, which makes the Xamarin Word processing solution very cost-effective.
It is optimized for server environments where speed and low memory usage is critical.
All the elements in a typical Word document like text, formatting, images, shapes, and tables are accessible through a comprehensive set of APIs.
The Xamarin Word Framework (Essential DocIO) is a mature, proven product used in mission-critical applications for over 15 years.
Xamarin Word framework comes with extensive documentation, a knowledge base, and samples. It only takes a few lines of code to create, view, or edit richly formatted Word documents.
Provides a single, uniform API across all platforms.
Create Word documents from scratch with text, formatting, images, shapes, tables, and more. Edit an existing Word document with just a few lines of code.
Generate reports like invoices, payrolls, and more, by performing mail merge faster in a batch process without Microsoft Office or interop dependencies.
Merge multiple documents into a single document by importing content with several formatting options, like using destination styles, keeping source formatting, and more.
Split a document into multiple smaller documents based on sections, placeholder text, or any document element.
Navigate to a bookmark in the document and insert, edit, retrieve, or delete its content. This framework also supports replacing bookmarked content with text, part of a document, or an entire document.
Find text or text patterns using regular expressions, and then highlight or format it. You can also, replace the text or text pattern with other text, a part of a document, or an entire document.
Create, edit, and format simple and nested tables in a Word document. Polish the appearance of tables by applying built-in styles and conditional styling options.
Customize the appearance of the document with several formatting options at the text level and paragraph level, add bullets and numbering, create styles, and more.
Create fillable forms with legacy form fields and content controls in Word documents. Then, fill the form and extract the data from the form fields effortlessly.
Easily get started with the Xamarin Word Library using a few simple lines of C# code example as demonstrated below. Also explore our Xamarin Word Library Example that shows you how to create and configure the Xamarin Word.
using Syncfusion.DocIO;
using Syncfusion.DocIO.DLS;
//Creates an instance of WordDocument Instance (Empty Word Document)
WordDocument document = new WordDocument();
//Add a section & a paragraph in the empty document
document.EnsureMinimal();
//Append text to the last paragraph of the document
document.LastParagraph.AppendText("Hello World");
//Saves the Word document to MemoryStream
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
document.Save(stream, FormatType.Docx);
//Closes the document
document.Close();
//Save the stream as a file in the device and invoke it for viewing
Xamarin.Forms.DependencyService.Get<ISave>().SaveAndView("Result.docx", "application/msword", stream);
Unleash the full potential of document processing with our Word Library. Our powerful framework enables seamless creation, reading, manipulation, and conversion of Word documents programmatically across various platforms, including .NET, Blazor, .NET MAUI, .NET Core, Java, WinUI, Xamarin, and UWP. Explore the features of our Word creation and manipulation library by platform.
The Xamarin Word framework can convert Word documents to PDF, RTF, TXT, HTML, and ODT formats. Also, it can convert RTF, TXT, and HTML files to Word documents.
Convert Word documents to PDF for printing and viewing in a portable format. Various customization options are also supported.
Convert Word documents to images (PNG, BMP, JPEG) for printing and viewing without any Word document viewer dependencies.
Convert Word documents to RTF for reading and editing rich text independently with any rich text editor. Also, convert RTF files to Word documents.
Convert Word documents to plain text for reading and editing text. Also convert text files to Word documents.
Convert Word documents to HTML for viewing and printing HTML content with any browser. Also, convert XHTML 1.0 compliant HTML files to Word documents.
Convert Word documents to open document text (ODT) format. This format is used for maintaining the documents’ interoperability with Word processing applications like OpenOffice Writer.
The Syncfusion Xamarin Word Framework supports the following features:
No, this is a commercial product and requires a paid license. However, a free community license is also available for companies and individuals whose organizations have less than $1 million USD in annual gross revenue, 5 or fewer developers, and 10 or fewer total employees.
A good place to start would be our comprehensive getting started documentation.
Apart from Xamarin, the Syncfusion Word Framework supports platforms for web (Blazor, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web Forms, and Java), mobile (.NET MAUI, and UWP), and desktop (Windows Forms, WPF, WinUI, .NET MAUI, and UWP).
You can find our Xamarin Word Framework demo here.
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