Extract text from MS Word table without bullets [Powershell 4.0]

Question

I want to extract some text from a ms word, from some particular table:

However, when I execute code:

$objWord = New-Object -ComObject Word.Application
$objWord.Visible = $true
$filename = 'D:\test.docx'
$objDocument = $objWord.Documents.Open($filename)
$LETable = $objDocument.Tables.Item(1)
$LETableCols = $LETable.Columns.Count
$LETableRows = $LETable.Rows.Count

Write-output "Starting to write... "

$content2 = $LETable.Cell(6,2).Range.Text
$content3 = $LETable.Cell(7,1).Range.Text
$content4 = $LETable.Cell(7,2).Range.Text
#Write-host $content2
$doc2 = $objWord.Documents.Add()
$objWord.Selection.typetext("$content2")
$objWord.Selection.typetext("$content3")
$objWord.Selection.typetext("$content4")
#$objDocument.Close()
#$objWord.Quit()
# Stop Winword Process
#$rc = [System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($objWord)

How to remove those bullets-questionmarks? I want just plain text.

Answer 1

You will need to find unicode expression for this character.Once found then use of regular expression can be helpful to replace it with empty character, space or tab. I even try with "direct" copy and paste of "✀" and it works as well.

To remove character: $String -replace '✀'

to replace it:

 $String = "Just ✀ and another ✀"
#replace ✀ with cat
 $String -replace '✀','cat'

Ant the result is:

Just cat and another cat

Answer 2

What you need in actual is to get the plain text of the document. Check out Open-Xml-PowerTools .

As docx files are open xml format, you can take advantage of this tool and its powerful commands.