genarate a thumbnail of a word document c#

Question

i have a website where users upload word documents and i want to display thumbnails of these word documents If anyone of you knows how to display the first page of a word file as an image using c# please tell me.

Also if you a trusted .Net Library (convert word files to images)that requires no office interop that would be great

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Take a look at this article. It's in VB, but it lets you extract the thumbnail image that Windows Explorer uses for Office documents and regular images.