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Is it possible to read and write Word (2003 and 2007) files in Python without using a COM object?
I know that I can:
f = open('c:\file.doc', "w")
f.write(text)
f.close()
but Word will read it as an HTML file not a native .doc file.
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You can use python-docx2txt library to read text from Microsoft Word documents. It is an improvement over python-docx library as it can, in addition, extract text from links, headers and footers. It can even extract images. You can install it by running: pip install docx2txt .
To extract text from MS word files in Python, we can use the zipfile library. to create ZipFile object with the path string to the Word file. Then we call read with 'word/document. xml' to read the Word file.
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.
Use glob to get all files in the folder then use for loop and append the output to the variable.
See python-docx, its official documentation is available here.
This has worked very well for me.
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