import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.*;
import org.apache.poi.hwpf.*;
import org.apache.poi.hwpf.extractor.*;
import java.io.*;

..
 private String readDocFile(File file)
    {
        
        POIFSFileSystem fs = null;
        try
        {
          fs = new POIFSFileSystem(new FileInputStream(file));
          HWPFDocument doc = new HWPFDocument(fs);
          WordExtractor we = new WordExtractor(doc);
          readedText = we.getText();

        }
        catch(Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

          return readedText;
    }