Unlike docx2txt, docx, cannot scrape images from Word Documents. This will include scraping separate lines defined in the Word Document for listed items. Then, we can scrape the text from each paragraph in the file using a list comprehension in conjunction with doc.paragraphs. Here we just input the name of the file we want to connect to. In the example below, we open a connection to our sample word file using the docx.Document method. docx is a powerful library for manipulating and creating Word Documents, but can also (with some restrictions) read in text from Word files. The source code behind docx2txt is derived from code in the docx package, which can also be used to scrape Word Documents. Later in this post we’ll talk about docx2python, which allows you to scrape tables in a more structured format. Again, this will be returned into a single string with any other text found in the document, which means this text can more difficult to parse. Result = docx2txt.process("zen_of_python_with_image.docx", "C:/path/to/store/files")ĭocx2txt will also scrape any text from tables. The text from the file will still also be extracted and stored in the result variable. Running docx2txt.process will extract any images in the Word Document and save them into this specified folder. When we run the process method, we can pass an extra parameter that specifies the name of an output directory. What if the file has images? In that case we just need a minor tweak to our code. Result = docx2txt.process("zen_of_python.docx") Regular text, listed items, hyperlink text, and table text will all be returned in a single string. We can read in the document using a method in the package called process, which takes the name of the file as input.
As you can see, once we’ve imported docx2txt, all we need is one line of code to read in the text from the Word Document. The example below reads in a Word Document containing the Zen of Python. This is a Python package that allows you to scrape text and images from Word Documents. We’re going to cover three different packages – docx2txt, docx, and my personal favorite: docx2python. This post will talk about how to read Word Documents with Python.
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