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for working with MS word files in python, there is python win32 extensions, which can be used in windows. How do I do the same in linux? Is there any library?
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Python Library to Extract Text from Word Documents Moreover, it lets you manipulate the existing Word documents for encryption, conversion, text extraction, etc. We will use this library to extract text from the Word DOCX or DOC documents. You can install the library from PyPI using the following pip command.
To extract the contents of the file, right-click on the file and select “Extract All” from the popup menu. On the “Select a Destination and Extract Files” dialog box, the path where the content of the .
Reading Word Documents docx file in Python, call docx. Document() , and pass the filename demo. docx. This will return a Document object, which has a paragraphs attribute that is a list of Paragraph objects.
To read a word document we take help of the module named docx. We first install docx as shown below. Then write a program to use the different functions in docx module to read the entire file by paragraphs.
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!
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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.
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