title: How to read Microsoft Word Binary Data from database and convert it to readable text
body: <p>I'm working in a java application called Mirth where I need to read a saved word document that is saved in a database table in a Microsoft word binary data format. Currently I can retrieve data from column in my java application but I need to convert this to readable text or XML or HTML format.</p>
  
  <p>Looking online there is a java library call Aspose.words but I can't find any methods that would read in this binary data and convert it to something readable. Has anyone use Aspose.words before to do a task like this or does anyone have an alternative solution</p>