Extracting comments from Word

Product: Apryse WebViewer

Product Version: 10.3.0

Please give a brief summary of your issue:

Unable to extract comments from Word doucments

Please describe your issue and provide steps to reproduce it:

      const annotationManager = instance.Core.annotationManager;
      const annotations = annotationManager.getAnnotationsList();

annotations seems to be empty. What’s the correct way to extract all the comments and display them in the sidebar.

Example file:
examplewithcomment.docx (16.7 KB)

In Apryse:

Same doc in Box viewer:

Hello jevy,

Thank you for reaching out!

The Office document comments are not the same as PDF annotations, which is why you do not see them in our side panel.

Best regards,
Tyler

Does Apryse support extracting the Word comments then? Your reply isn’t clear.

Hello jevy,

Apologies for not specifying. Currently we do not support DOCX comments, however this is on our roadmap.

Best regards,
Tyler