code: package com.hrLDA.doc;
  
  import java.io.File;
  import java.io.FileInputStream;
  import java.io.IOException;
  
  import org.apache.poi.hwpf.HWPFDocument;
  import org.apache.poi.hwpf.usermodel.CharacterRun;
  import org.apache.poi.hwpf.usermodel.Paragraph;
  import org.apache.poi.hwpf.usermodel.Range;
  import org.apache.poi.hwpf.usermodel.Section;
  
  public class StripDOCContent extends Document{
  	public StripDOCContent() {}
      /**
       * 
       * @param .doc file
       * @return text content
       * @throws IOException
       */
      public StripDOCContent readContent(File file) { 
      	
      	try{
      		
      		StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
      		FileInputStream is=new FileInputStream(file);
              HWPFDocument doc=new HWPFDocument(is);
              Range r=doc.getRange();
              for(int x=0;x<r.numSections();x++){
                  Section s=r.getSection(x);
                  for(int y=0;y<s.numParagraphs();y++){
                      Paragraph p=s.getParagraph(y);
                      for(int z=0;z<p.numCharacterRuns();z++){
                          CharacterRun run=p.getCharacterRun(z);
                          if (run != null){
                          	// if this is a text run
                          	if (run.text() != null){
                              	// append it, if it contains text
                          		String tempText = run.text().replaceAll("HYPERLINK \"http:\\/\\/[^\"]+", "")
                          				. replaceAll("\" \\\\o \"", "");
                                  if (!tempText.matches("[\\s]+")){
                                  	stringBuffer.append(tempText+"\n");
                                  }
                          	}
                          }
                      }// end of for(int z=0;z<p.numCharacterRuns();z++){
                  }// end of for(int y=0;y<s.numParagraphs();y++){
              }// end of for(int x=0;x<r.numSections();x++){    		
   
          if (!stringBuffer.toString().matches("")){
              this.setCont(stringBuffer.toString());
              return this;
          }else return null;
  
  		} catch (Exception e) {
  			return null;
  		}    		    	
      }
      
  	public static void main(String[] args) {
  		Document stripDOCContent = new StripDOCContent();
  		File file = new File ("/Users/xiaofengzhu/Documents/Intel/Materials/wikippts/Wiki0/test.doc");
  		stripDOCContent.readContent(file);
  		System.out.println(stripDOCContent.getCont());
  
  	}
  
  }
  