The following example will show you how to use the E-iceblue‘s free Spire.Doc for Java to perform mail merge operations on MS Word documents.

Create Maven Project and Add Dependencies

Create a maven project and add the following dependencies and repositories in your project’s pom.xml file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

    ...
    ...

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>e-iceblue</groupId>
            <artifactId>spire.doc.free</artifactId>
            <version>5.2.0</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>com.e-iceblue</id>
            <name>e-iceblue</name>
            <url>https://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
</project>

Create Mail Merge Template in Microsoft Word

• Create a new Word document.
• Place your cursor where you want to add a merge field.

• Click the Insert menu, Quick Parts, Fields…
• In the Field names select MergeField and enter the field name and press OK.

• To create merge field for image you need to prefix the field name with Image:
• When finished save the document.

The Mail Merge Code Snippet

The code snippet reads the mail merge template from a file called Receipt.docx. For the image we use a duke.png. Both of these files must be placed in the /src/main/resources directory in your maven project so that the code can read it.

package org.kodejava.example.spire;

import com.spire.doc.Document;
import com.spire.doc.FileFormat;
import com.spire.doc.reporting.MergeImageFieldEventArgs;
import com.spire.doc.reporting.MergeImageFieldEventHandler;

import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;

public class MailMergeExample {
    public static final Locale LOCALE = new Locale("id", "ID");
    public static final DateFormat DATE_FORMAT = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMMM-yyyy", LOCALE);
    public static final NumberFormat NUMBER_FORMAT = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(LOCALE);

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String[] fieldNames = new String[]{
                "academicYear",
                "registrationNumber",
                "fullName",
                "gender",
                "telephone",
                "address",
                "paymentAmount",
                "inWords",
                "paymentDate",
                "receivedBy",
                "picture"
        };
        String[] fieldValues = new String[]{
                "2021/2022",
                "0001/REG/2021",
                "Foo Bar",
                "M",
                "081234567890",
                "Sudirman Street 100",
                NUMBER_FORMAT.format(1575000),
                "One Million Five Hundred Seventy Five Thousand",
                DATE_FORMAT.format(new Date()),
                "John Doe",
                "/duke.png"
        };

        try {
            Document document = new Document();
            document.loadFromStream(MailMergeExample.class.getResourceAsStream("/Receipt.docx"), FileFormat.Auto);
            document.getMailMerge().MergeImageField = new MergeImageFieldEventHandler() {
                @Override
                public void invoke(Object o, MergeImageFieldEventArgs field) {
                    field.setPictureSize(new Dimension(66, 88));

                    String path = field.getImageFileName();
                    if (path != null && !path.isEmpty()) {
                        try {
                            field.setImage(MailMergeExample.class.getResourceAsStream(path));
                        } catch (Exception e) {
                            e.printStackTrace();
                        }
                    }
                }
            };
            document.getMailMerge().execute(fieldNames, fieldValues);

            String fileName = "Receipt.pdf";
            FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(fileName);
            document.saveToStream(fos, FileFormat.PDF);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Running the code will create a file called Receipt.pdf with the content as shown in the image below.