Excel gives you the option to save as Web Page (*.html, *.html) which will convert your spreadsheet from the binary format to html.
It creates the html with the header:
<html
xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
A legacy third-party system being used is generating this html and saving it with the extension xls. Excel will open the file and although it gives a warning about "The file format and extension don't match" it opens the file just fine.
Currently, some VBA on on the end users personal macro workbook is reading these files and saving them to the binary Excel format.
Sub Convert()
Const FOLDER_PATH As String = "Z:\reports\"
Dim wb As Workbook
Set wb = Workbooks.Open(FOLDER_PATH & "input.html.xls")
wb.SaveAs Filename:=FOLDER_PATH & "output.xls", FileFormat:=xlExcel8
End Sub
However, the files are now being fed through a centralised process that handles all the report feeds.
The existing process reads reports in Java using poi. However, the process fails when being sent this Excel file as it is expecting xls and not html renamed as xls.
How do I read/convert these files in Java?
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I am facing an issue when using apache poi to extract an embedded .xlsx files from a .ppt file. It would be really great if somebody could help me out.
The subject of the problem:
Problem trying to solve: Extracting a ".xlsx" file embedded inside a ".ppt".
I am currently using apache-poi.
It seems that when I try to do it using hslfSlideShow.getEmbeddedObjects(), I get the xlsx object just fine but when I try converting it to the XLSFWorkbook object using say WorkbookFactory.create(inputStream), it threw an error saying
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The supplied POIFSFileSystem does not contain a BIFF8 'Workbook' entry. Is it really an excel file? Had: [OlePres000, Ole, CompObj, Package]
at org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.getWorkbookDirEntryName(HSSFWorkbook.java:286)
at org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.<init>(HSSFWorkbook.java:326)
at org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbookFactory.createWorkbook(HSSFWorkbookFactory.java:64)
at org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.WorkbookFactory.create(WorkbookFactory.java:167)
at org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.WorkbookFactory.create(WorkbookFactory.java:112)
at org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.WorkbookFactory.create(WorkbookFactory.java:253)
at org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.WorkbookFactory.create(WorkbookFactory.java:221)
Interestingly it is calling HSSFWorkbookFactory even though its an xlsx file.
And no the xlsx file is not corrupted/password-protected. I can open it just fine.
Also, it works fine if I try parsing the .xlsx file without embedding it in the .ppt.
And the parsing works fine when I embed it in a .pptx file and call methods such as xmlSlideShow.getAllEmbeddedParts() to get the embedded objects from .pptx.
Promoting some comments and investigation to an answer...
This was a limitation in older version of Apache POI, but was fixed in July in r1880164.
For backwards-compatibility reasons, PowerPoint will often (but not always...) write embedded OOXML resources wrapped in an intermediate OLE2 layer. This has the advantage that tools/programs which expect embedded office documents to be something like a xls / doc to cope, but at the expense of another layer of wrapping.
Newer versions of Apache POI (5.0 should be the first released one with the fix in) have support in WorkbookFactory for receiving an OLE2 wrapper like this, pulling out the underlying xlsx stream and handing that off to XSSFWorkbook. (Older versions did this for OLE2-based password-protected xlsx files, but not their unencrypted cousins)
For now, if you're stuck on an affected POI version, the code you'll want is something like this (largely taken from the unit test verifying support!):
POIFSFileSystem fs = new POIFSFileSystem(data.getInputStream());
if(fs.getRoot().hasEntry("Package")) {
DocumentInputStream dis = new DocumentInputStream((DocumentEntry)fs.getRoot().getEntry("Package"));
try (OPCPackage pkg = OPCPackage.open(dis)) {
XSSFWorkbook wb = new XSSFWorkbook(pkg);
handleWorkbook(wb);
wb.close();
}
} else {
try (HSSFWorkbook wb = new HSSFWorkbook(fs)) {
handleWorkbook(wb);
}
}
I would like to create a copy of word or excel file using poi.
I know that poi is also used when reading a word or excel file. Reading means not only values but also attribute such as font size or table color and backgroud colors for each cells. Reading values and attribute of the xlsx or docx document, I want to make a copy of the word or Excel document as it is. Is it possible that the related source is open at open source on the any site?
read Apache POI or docx4j for dealing with docx documents
you can find the techniques related to adding text into document you can found out on https://www.slideshare.net/plutext/document-generation-2012osdcsydney
use POI's HWPF support. this is often enclosed in docx4j as a dependency. however its not an excellent approach, since it does not convert the doc to docx4j's internal representation:- you are kind of stuck in HWPF land
use JODConverter to convert the doc to a docx, and if necessary, back again. this is often the simplest .
To open an excel from one file, and save it to another file I use this code.
//open source excel
InputStream template = new FileInputStream("C:\\source excel path\\input.xlsx");
Workbook wb = WorkbookFactory.create(template);
//Saving excel to a different location or filename.
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("C:\\path to copy excel to\\output.xlsx");
wb.write(out);
wb.close();
out.close();
template.close();
Using the following code while reading in a .xls file, where s is the file directory:
InputStream input = new FileInputStream(s);
Workbook wbs = new HSSFWorkbook(input);
I get the following error message:
Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Invalid header signature; read 0x0010000000060809, expected 0xE11AB1A1E011CFD0
I need a program that is able to read in either XLSX or XLS, and using the exact same code just adjusted for XSSF it has no problem at all reading in the XLSX file.
The Exception you're getting is one telling you that the file you're supplying isn't a valid Excel binary file, at least not a valid Excel file produced since about 1990. The exception you're getting tells you what POI expects, and that it found something else instead which wasn't a valid .xls file, and wasn't anything else POI can detect.
One thing to be aware of is that Excel opens a wide variety of different file formats, including .csv and .html. It's also not very picky about the file extension, so will happily open a CSV file that has been renamed to a .xls one. However, since renaming a .csv to a .xls doesn't magically change the format, POI still can't open it!
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From the exception, I can tell what's happening, and I can also tell you're using an ancient version of Apache POI! A header signature of 0x0010000000060809 corresponds to the Excel 4 file format, from about 25 years ago! If you use a more recent version of Apache POI, it'll give you a helpful error message telling you that the file supplied is an old and largely unsupported Excel file. New versions of POI do include the OldExcelExtractor tool which can pull out some information from those ancient formats.
Otherwise, as with all exceptions of this type, try opening the file in Excel and doing a save-as. That will give you an idea of what the file currently is (eg .html saved as .xls, .csv saved as .xls etc), and will also let you re-save it as a proper .xls file for POI to load and work with.
If the file is in xlsx format instead of xls you might get this error. I would try using the generic Workbook object (Also called the SS Usermodel)
Check out the Workbook interface and the WorkbookFactory object. The factory should be able to create a generic Workbook for you out of either xlsx or xls.
I thought I had a good tutorial on this, but I can't seem to find it. I'll keep looking though.
Edit
I found this little tiny snippet from Apache's site about reading and rewriting using the SS Usermodel.
I hope this helps!
Invalid header signature; read 0x342E312D46445025, expected 0xE11AB1A1E011CFD0
Well I got this error when I uploaded corrupted xls/xlsx file(to upload corrupt file I renamed sample.pdf to sample.xls). Add validation like :
Workbook wbs = null;
try {
InputStream input = new FileInputStream(s);
wbs = new HSSFWorkbook(input);
} catch(IOException e) {
// log "file is corrupted", show error message to user
}
i am trying to get cell data from my .csv file but it gets error :
jxl.read.biff.BiffException: Unable to recognize OLE stream
I don't understand how to solve this,please give me some solution
this code is for jxl api & is that api support to .csv?
Code for reference:
public void read() throws IOException, BiffException {
File inputWorkbook = new File(inputFile);
try
{
w = Workbook.getWorkbook(inputWorkbook.getAbsoluteFile());
// Get the first sheet
Sheet sheet = w.getSheet(0);
// Loop over first 10 column and lines
for (row = 1; row < sheet.getRows(); row++)
{
ReadExcelLotSizeEntity readExcelLotSizeEntity =new ReadExcelLotSizeEntity();
cell = sheet.getCell(1,row);
type= cell.getType();
if (cell.getType() == CellType.LABEL)
{
symbol=cell.getContents();
System.out.println(":::::::::::::::::"+symbol);
readExcelLotSizeEntity.setSymbol(symbol);
}
int col=2;
cell = sheet.getCell(col,row);
while(!cell.getContents().equals("")||cell.getContents()!=null)
{
System.out.println("||||||||||||||||"+cell.getContents());
cell=sheet.getCell(col,row);
col++;
}
lotSize= new Double(cell.getContents());
readExcelLotSizeEntity.setLotSize(lotSize);
readExcelLotSizeEntity.setCreateUserId(1L);
readExcelLotSizeEntity.setCreateDtTm(new Date());
readExcelLotSizeHome.persist(readExcelLotSizeEntity);
}
} catch (BiffException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
I was also facing this problem earlier. I googled and read this post and many other posts that were asking for solution to this BiffException. I don't have the exact solution but as I fixed my problem you can do it too, perhaps.
I was trying to read data from the Excel file saved in MS Office 2010 and I was getting this error. I saved the file as an Excel 2003-7 and then read it without any problem. It may the case that this problem occurs in Office 10 but not in Office 2003-7.
I hope this will work in your case.
Saving File as "Excel 97-2003 Workbook" type solved my issue.
JXL library doesnot support .csv and .xslx formats, which is the format used by Excel-2010. hence, use Excel 97-2003 which is .xls foramatted and is supported by JXL library.
or else if you want to use excel-2010, use APACHE POI(XSSFWorkbooks) instead of JXL.
For using .csv format, google for CSVReader libraries.
JXL is a simple (and hence limited) API. If it says
Unable to recognize OLE stream
it is what it is. It doesn't quite understand your Excel XLS file. Have confidence that the error is legitimate. This API only supports *.xls files; it doesn't support, for example, *.csv or *.xlsx files. Obviously, having the file renamed to *.xls alone is not sufficient. It must be in Excel 97-2003 format too.
Copy all the cells from your *.csv or *.xlsx file.
Open MS Excel and paste the copied cells.
Save the file as MS Excel 97-2003 (*.xls) file.
This error will surely not appear again.
On the other hand, if you want to process other formats (xlsx, csv) directly, look for other tools like Apache POI.
Save the Excel file type as Excel 97-2003 Worksheet and extension type as xls
Actually you are using different version of csv file .Please save it in the exact version.
For ex: we should save the excel sheet in word as 9
save the file as Excel 97-2003 and also change the file format from xlsx to xlx , in the code(in the file name)
I was trying to read data from the Excel file saved in MS Office 2010 and I was getting this error. I saved the file as an Excel 2003-7 and then read it without any problem. It may the case that this problem occurs in Office 10 but not in Office 2003-7
I am using JXL to write an Excel report. Everything works fine if I use the .XLS extension. However, when I use the .XLSM extension, the report fails to load when I try to open it. I get the message "Excel cannot open the file 'TestExcel.xlsm' because the file format or file extension is not valid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the file extension matches the format of the file". Below is a simplified version of what I am doing. As mentioned, it works if you change the filePath to use .XLS instead.
String filePath = "C:\\Users\\Rachel\\Desktop\\TestExcel.xlsm";
File excelFile = new File(filePath);
WritableWorkbook book = Workbook.createWorkbook(excelFile);
WritableSheet sheet = book.createSheet("Test Sheet", 0);
sheet.addCell(new Label(0, 0, "Testing..."));
book.write();
book.close();
I am using Excel 2007 to open the file. If I create a new workbook in Excel, save it as xlsm, close it, and then open it, Excel opens it correctly. Does anyone know how to make the JXL file open correctly? I cannot switch to Apache POI or anything, I have to use JXL.