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extracting text from MS word files in python
I want to parse (in order to perform a search with an expression) a .doc file with a script in python. It runs on a unix machine.
Can anyone help ?
You may take a look at this project: python-docx.
After downloading the library, you can run
python example-extracttext.py docfile.docx textfile.txt | grep some-expressionin the shell. Surely you can also do more sophisticated search in python code when necessary.The shortcoming of python-docx is it currently only supports ms-Word 2007/2008, if that concerns you, I recommend antiword, which supports Microsoft Word version 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003. Actually I’ve been using that in my vimrc to be able to view ms-word files in VIM editor. Although it’s not a python script, it can easily be invoked from Python.