Crate office_oxide 

office_oxide

The fastest Office document processing library for Rust.

Reads, writes, and edits DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, DOC, XLS, PPT — all six Microsoft Office formats — with a single unified API and zero C/C++ dependencies.

Quick start

use office_oxide::Document;

let doc = Document::open("report.docx")?;
println!("{}", doc.plain_text());

Feature flags

Flag	What it enables
python	PyO3 Python bindings
wasm	wasm-bindgen WASM bindings
mmap	Memory-mapped file I/O
parallel	Rayon-based parallel processing

Re-exports

pub use core::OfficeDocument;

pub use error::OfficeError;

pub use error::Result;

pub use format::DocumentFormat;

pub use ir::DocumentIR;

Modules

cfb

Compound Binary File (OLE2/CFB) container reader, used by legacy formats. Pure Rust reader for Compound Binary File Format (CFBF/OLE2) containers.

core

Shared OOXML primitives: OPC, XML utilities, relationships, theme, units.

create

Document creation API: write new DOCX/XLSX/PPTX from scratch or from IR. Unified document creation from IR or markdown.

doc

Legacy Word Binary (.doc) document reader. Pure Rust reader for legacy Word Binary (.doc) files.

docx

Word document (.docx) reader, writer, and editor.

edit

Document editing API: modify existing DOCX/XLSX/PPTX files in-place. Unified document editing API.

error

Top-level error type wrapping all format-specific errors.

ffi

C Foreign Function Interface (FFI) for office_oxide.

format

DocumentFormat enum and format detection utilities.

ir

Format-agnostic intermediate representation (IR) of a document.

ppt

Legacy PowerPoint Binary (.ppt) presentation reader. Pure Rust reader for legacy PowerPoint Binary (.ppt) files.

pptx

PowerPoint presentation (.pptx) reader, writer, and editor.

xls

Legacy Excel Binary (.xls) workbook reader. Pure Rust reader for legacy Excel Binary (.xls) BIFF8 files.

xlsx

Excel spreadsheet (.xlsx) reader, writer, and editor.

Structs

Document

A unified document handle supporting DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, DOC, XLS, and PPT formats.

Constants

VERSION

Library version (matches the Cargo package version).

Functions

extract_text

Extract plain text from any supported document file.

to_html

Convert any supported document file to an HTML fragment.

to_markdown

Convert any supported document file to markdown.