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Originally Posted by shish

Hi there

Is possible to retreive the Author name from any file (.doc/.ppt/.xls etc.)?
Is there any java code that can help me to get author of a file?

Please help me?

Code:

            POIDocument document = new HWPFDocument(new FileInputStream("a.doc"));
            System.out.println(document.getSummaryInformation().getAuthor());

            POIDocument workbook = new HSSFWorkbook(new FileInputStream("a.xls"));
            System.out.println(workbook.getSummaryInformation().getAuthor());

            POIDocument show = new HSLFSlideShow(new FileInputStream("a.ppt"));
            System.out.println(show.getSummaryInformation().getAuthor());

HPSF HOW-TO

It works - please Download Apache POI and put in class path before executing above code.