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I have an application that loads different documents to the server, and allows users to read documents’ content.
I am uploading the documents to the server, and then I try to read the courses by id, like:
def view_course(request,id):
u = Courses.objects.get(pk=id)
etc
But I don’t find anywhere: how can I actually read the content of a /.doc/.pdf/.txt and display it on a web page?
Reading plain text files is trivial, while PDF and Word processing is not. For the latter two you’ll have to incorporate some external libraries.
Text:
f.read()Word: extracting text from MS word files in python
PDF: http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/index.html