extracting text from MS word files in python extracting text from MS word files in python python python

extracting text from MS word files in python


python linux ms-word

Use the native Python docx module. Here's how to extract all the text from a doc:

document = docx.Document(filename)docText = '\n\n'.join(    paragraph.text for paragraph in document.paragraphs)print(docText)

See Python DocX site

Also check out Textract which pulls out tables etc.

Parsing XML with regexs invokes cthulu. Don't do it!

python linux ms-word

You could make a subprocess call to antiword. Antiword is a linux commandline utility for dumping text out of a word doc. Works pretty well for simple documents (obviously it loses formatting). It's available through apt, and probably as RPM, or you could compile it yourself.

python linux ms-word

benjamin's answer is a pretty good one. I have just consolidated...

import zipfile, redocx = zipfile.ZipFile('/path/to/file/mydocument.docx')content = docx.read('word/document.xml').decode('utf-8')cleaned = re.sub('<(.|\n)*?>','',content)print(cleaned)

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