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Java API to handle Microsoft OLE 2 Compound Document format (Word, Excel). Based on poi-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar, with bugfixes for OLE v2 and memory efficiency improvements. Used by Bio-Formats for OLE support (cxd, ipw, oib, zvi). Used by VisBio overlays logic for XLS export feature.

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package loci.poi;

/**
 * Common Parent for Text Extractors
 *  of POI Documents. 
 * You will typically find the implementation of
 *  a given format's text extractor under
 *  loci.poi.[format].extractor .
 * @see loci.poi.hssf.extractor.ExcelExtractor
 */
public abstract class POITextExtractor {
	/** The POIDocument that's open */
	protected POIDocument document;

	/**
	 * Creates a new text extractor for the given document
	 */
	public POITextExtractor(POIDocument document) {
		this.document = document;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Retrieves all the text from the document.
	 * How cells, paragraphs etc are separated in the text
	 *  is implementation specific - see the javadocs for
	 *  a specific project for details.
	 * @return All the text from the document
	 */
	public abstract String getText();
}