code: package com.hrLDA.doc;
  
  import java.io.FileInputStream;
  import java.io.InputStream;
  import java.util.List;
  
  import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFDocument;
  import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFParagraph;
  import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFRun;
  
  
  public class StripDOCXContent extends Document{
  	public StripDOCXContent(){}
  	
  
      /**
      * 
      * @param filepath
      * @return text content
      * @throws Exception
      */
      public StripDOCXContent readContent(String filepath){
      	
      	try{
      		  StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
  			  InputStream is = new FileInputStream(filepath);  
      	      XWPFDocument doc = new XWPFDocument(is);  
      	      List<XWPFParagraph> paras = doc.getParagraphs(); 
  
      	      for (XWPFParagraph para : paras) {  
      	    	   List<XWPFRun> runs = para.getRuns();
      	    	   for(int i = 0; i< runs.size() ; i++) {
      	    		   XWPFRun run = runs.get(i);
                         if (run != null){  
                      	   // if this is a text run
                      	   if (run.getText(0) !=null){
                             	// append it, if it contains text
                         			String tempText = run.getText(0).replaceAll("HYPERLINK \"http:\\/\\/[^\"]+", "")
                         				. replaceAll("\" \\\\o \"", "");
                         			if (!tempText.matches("\\s+")){
                         				stringBuffer.append(tempText+"\n");
                         			}   
                      	   }
                         }
      	    	   }// end of  for(int i = 0; i< runs.size() ; i++) {
      	      }// end of for (XWPFParagraph para : paras) {      		
      	      
  	        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 stripDOCXContent = new StripDOCXContent();
  		stripDOCXContent.readContent("/Users/xiaofengzhu/Documents/Intel/Materials/wikippts/Wiki0/TESTV1.1_simple_cleaned.docx");
  		if (stripDOCXContent.getCont() != null){
  			System.out.println(stripDOCXContent.getCont());
  		}
  
  	}
  	
  
  }
  