Apache POI: Paragraph and Table contents from microsoft word file (docx) using Java and maven

ExtractTestCases.java

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.OPCPackage;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.IBodyElement;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFDocument;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFParagraph;
import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFTable;

public class ExtractTestCases {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		try {
			FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("path_to_file.docx");
			XWPFDocument xdoc = new XWPFDocument(OPCPackage.open(fis));
			Iterator<IBodyElement> bodyElementIterator = xdoc
					.getBodyElementsIterator();
			while (bodyElementIterator.hasNext()) {
				IBodyElement element = bodyElementIterator.next();
        
        /* Read list of paragraphs */
				if ("PARAGRAPH".equalsIgnoreCase(element.getElementType()	.name())) {
					List<XWPFParagraph> paraList = element.getBody().getParagraphs();
					for (XWPFParagraph para : paraList) {
						System.out.println("Para Contents:" + para.getText());
					}
				}

         /* Read list of tables */
				if ("TABLE".equalsIgnoreCase(element.getElementType().name())) {
					List<XWPFTable> tableList = element.getBody().getTables();
					for (XWPFTable table : tableList) {
						System.out.println(table.getText());
					}
				}
			}
		} catch (Exception ex) {
			ex.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<groupId>com.test</groupId>
	<artifactId>ApachePOI</artifactId>
	<packaging>jar</packaging>
	<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
	<name>ApachePOI</name>
	<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>junit</groupId>
			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
			<version>4.11</version>
			<scope>test</scope>
		</dependency>
		<!-- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.poi/poi -->
		<dependency>
		    <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
		    <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
		    <version>3.15-beta1</version>
		</dependency>
		<!-- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.poi/poi-ooxml -->
		<dependency>
		    <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
		    <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
		    <version>3.15-beta1</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
		    <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
		    <artifactId>poi-ooxml-schemas</artifactId>
		    <version>3.15-beta1</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
		    <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
		    <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
		    <version>1.2</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
		    <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
		    <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
		    <version>1.10</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
		    <groupId>log4j</groupId>
		    <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
		    <version>1.2.17</version>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>

	<build>
		<plugins>
			<plugin>
				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
				<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
				<version>2.3.2</version>
				<configuration>
					<source>1.6</source>
					<target>1.6</target>
				</configuration>
			</plugin>
		</plugins>
	</build>

</project>