How to get a part of docx file as image, not whole page

I have been trying to insert a docx file contents into crystal reports. (In Crystal Reports if I insert OLE object and select a docx file, program imports only the used part of the word file, not the whole page.)

I have searched to convert Word document to image, but all I found was about getting a whole page or a specific image in a page. In my case I can have text and also line objects and maybe some graphic files in maybe 6 - 7 paragraphs. And only used part of the page(6 - 7 paragraphs) should be my image file.

Our customers are using this Word files as a header of the report. For now the only way I can do is to have screen shoot of the design. And it doesn't always look good. Is there a way to get this part as image?

Note: I can't use directly doc file in crystal reports, I need to have the data in SQL database. So it has to be graphic file.

Solution

You may find the Selection.CopyAsPicture method which works the same way as the Copy method. Basically you need to select the required content in a Word Document and then use this method to take a picture of selected content and keep it in a memory for further usage. For example, the following example copies the contents of the active document as a picture and pastes it as a picture at the end of the document:

Sub CopyPasteAsPicture() 
 ActiveDocument.Content.Select 
 With Selection 
   .CopyAsPicture 
   .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd 
   .PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteMetafilePicture 
 End With 
End Sub

In C# you could use the same properties and methods, the Word object model is common for all kind of applications.