Introduction

One day you may be asked to write a parser that will have to parse a bunch of documents and break them down into a structured model and store them in a relational-database. And those documents will most likely be written in MS Word. And the sad part would be that they would not have any structure, they will not follow any standard and they will include OLE/embedded objects. I was assigned with such a task, and it was a very interesting experience for me.

Since this was my first such project, meaning automating MS Office application, I had to go and do a lot of reading about automation. The good news is that there is a bunch of stuff out there; the bad news is that all of them are written for VB or VBA developers. I couldn