There are a couple of packages that let you do this. Check
python-docx.
docx2txt (note that it does not seem to work with
.doc). As per this, it seems to get more info than python-docx. From original documentation:
import docx2txt
# extract text
text = docx2txt.process("file.docx")
# extract text and write images in /tmp/img_dir
text = docx2txt.process("file.docx", "/tmp/img_dir")
textract (which works via docx2txt).
Since
.docxfiles are simply.zipfiles with a changed extension, this shows how to access the contents. This is a significant difference with.docfiles, and the reason why some (or all) of the above do not work with.docs. In this case, you would likely have to convertdoc->docxfirst.antiwordis an option.
Python-docx authored documents
Read Docx files via python - Stack Overflow
Can Python work with old word files .doc not .docx
Looking for python library that can read and write plain word .doc
Hello and commiserations,
I've been grading end of the semester projects for my freshman-level class. The project was to pick a data set of their choice, use some of the analysis tools we've learned this semester, discover two interesting things, tell me all about it. Couldn't be more stress free.
In grading they were all pretty much what I expected, except for three students. They all used vocabulary we haven't used in class, the graphs in their report were formatted differently than the ones in the Excel workbook they were required to submit, and the "conclusions" they reached from the analysis didn't match the actual analysis. For example, it would say something like "Home runs per year have been decreasing since the 1950" and the graph below that sentence doesn't match that at all.
So, of course, I'm suspicious. In my investigating, I discover that for each, their Word document indicate s it was created by python-docx and the first author is also listed as python-docx. I did some searching but all I came across was how to use a Python library to write to a Word document. I know these kids can't code in Python. I'm wondering if this is an indication that they paid someone or bought from Chegg an analysis that they recreated in Excel or if maybe this is a sign of a ChatGPT authored document?
If anyone has any insight, I'd appreciate it. I resent having to spend a bunch of time playing detective on these types of things, but I also feel an important part of teaching a freshman class is to try to catch these things and submit them. I want these students to learn this lesson, if nothing else. But if nothing else, they will learn that whatever tool they used as a shortcut (if they actually did so) is going to earn them a low grade because it gave them a crap final product.
May the force be with all of you!
There are a couple of packages that let you do this. Check
python-docx.
docx2txt (note that it does not seem to work with
.doc). As per this, it seems to get more info than python-docx. From original documentation:
import docx2txt
# extract text
text = docx2txt.process("file.docx")
# extract text and write images in /tmp/img_dir
text = docx2txt.process("file.docx", "/tmp/img_dir")
textract (which works via docx2txt).
Since
.docxfiles are simply.zipfiles with a changed extension, this shows how to access the contents. This is a significant difference with.docfiles, and the reason why some (or all) of the above do not work with.docs. In this case, you would likely have to convertdoc->docxfirst.antiwordis an option.
python-docx can read as well as write.
doc = docx.Document('myfile.docx')
allText = []
for docpara in doc.paragraphs:
allText.append(docpara.text)
Now all paragraphs will be in the list allText.
Thanks to Automate the Boring Stuff with Python by Al Sweigart for the pointer.
I need to read the contents of a .doc file and extract the text and I've found loads of solutions for .docx file but nothing for .doc.
Can Python do this, open the file get all the text?
Noob to Python so I don't know if any of the following is helpful or relevent!
I'm creating a exe that will allow someone to drag a file onto the exe.
It will be run on Windows pc but I don't know what other software may be installed.
The script will accept the file and read the contents which is going to be processed further.
My wife has a lot of word documents (possibly hundreds) in .doc format that need to be copy and paste to a new version of the same document.
These documents are essentially electronic forms. They have 17 text fields that needed to be copied and paste from one form to another. Doing so manually would take up a lot of time.
I'm trying to automate this process to save her time but I can't find a python library that will work with just .doc format.
docx2txt is the closest thing I'm looking for but it only works with .docx format.
Another way to go about it is to convert all the .doc files to .docx but I'd rather avoid that if I can.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.