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\u001B[1mSYNOPSIS\u001B[0m
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\u001B[1mDESCRIPTION\u001B[0m
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The Apache POI Project's mission is to create and maintain Java APIs for manipulating various file formats based
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upon the Office Open XML standards (OOXML) and Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format (OLE2). In short, you can
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read and write MS Excel files using Java. In addition, you can read and write MS Word and MS PowerPoint files using
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Java. Apache POI is your Java Excel solution (for Excel 97-2008). We have a complete API for porting other OOXML and
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OLE2 formats and welcome others to participate.
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OLE2 files include most Microsoft Office files such as XLS, DOC, and PPT as well as MFC serialization API based file
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formats. The project provides APIs for the OLE2 Filesystem (POIFS) and OLE2 Document Properties (HPSF).
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Office OpenXML Format is the new standards based XML file format found in Microsoft Office 2007 and 2008. This
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includes XLSX, DOCX and PPTX. The project provides a low level API to support the Open Packaging Conventions using
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openxml4j.
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For each MS Office application there exists a component module that attempts to provide a common high level Java api
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to both OLE2 and OOXML document formats. This is most developed for Excel workbooks (SS=HSSF+XSSF). Work is
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progressing for Word documents (HWPF+XWPF) and PowerPoint presentations (HSLF+XSLF).
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The project has recently added support for Outlook (HSMF). Microsoft opened the specifications to this format in
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October 2007. We would welcome contributions.
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There are also projects for Visio (HDGF), TNEF (HMEF), and Publisher (HPBF).
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As a general policy we collaborate as much as possible with other projects to provide this functionality.
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Examples include: Cocoon for which there are serializers for HSSF; Open Office.org with whom we collaborate in
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documenting the XLS format; and Tika / Lucene, for which we provide format interpretors.
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When practical, we donate components directly to those projects for POI-enabling them.
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\u001B[1mSEE ALSO\u001B[0m
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\u001B[36mhttp://poi.apache.org/\u001B[0m
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