This is a little hard to search for, but I'm looking for a way to read text out of an XPS file. I searched but found people talking about the XP operating system as plural (XPs). Does anyone have any suggestions for reading this file? The only option I thought of so far is to use a XPS to PDF converter, and then I saw a tool that would turn a PDF into text. This is of course only going to work if the XPS to PDF conversion preserves the text. Has anyone programmaticaly read information out of a generated XPS file?

@Hooovahh wrote: Please note that dispite the name this does not appear to be XML. The unflatten/flatten XML won't work, it is not ASCII. I've just had a look at the Wikipedia page and according to that - the xps file itself is a container for XML files: An XPS file is a Unicoded ZIP archive using the Open Packaging Conventions, containing the files which make up the document. These include an XML markup file for each page, text, embedded fonts, raster images, 2D vector graphics, as well as the digital rights management information. The contents of an XPS file can be examined by opening it in an application which supports ZIP files. So you might be able to unzip it to get the xml files and then extract the bits of information you need from there. There does seem to be support for reading/writing XPS files in .NET - perhaps you might have some luck with that? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd316975(v=vs.85).aspx

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@PatrickLye wrote:

In Explorer it only shows one file

After extraction it only shows one file

Yeah, now extract that file

The forums blocked attaching just the XPS file so to get around this I attached a zip that contained the one XPS file. Since doing that I learned that XPS is just a fancy zip anyway. So if you open the XPS file in 7-zip it will treat it as an archive file and show everything inside it. Alternativly you could rename the .XPS file into a .zip and then Windows will gladly show the contents of it.

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