Let’s test out our Word Document with docx2python. For example, it is able to return the text scraped from a document in a more structured format. It has some additional features beyond docx2txt and docx. Result = ĭocx2python is another package we can use to scrape Word Documents. Also, docx will not scrape out hyperlinks and text in tables defined in the Word Document.ĭoc = docx.Document("zen_of_python.docx") 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.
To report a bug, please use the issue reporting page, or send me an e-mail.This post will talk about how to read Word Documents with Python. You may use it to submit enhancements or to report any issue. The code is available in a Mercurial repository on bitbucket. It is not yet possible to edit field values and save the document.For now, multi-line text fields are not parsed correctly.Legacy form fields have a different structure, this module does not parse them yet. Only new-style Word form fields are supported.Only the recent "docx" format is supported, not the legacy MS Word "doc" format.you may also protect the document (in developer tab) so that users can only enter values into fields and not modify the rest of the document.
when done, disable design mode in order to enter values for the fields.It will be used when pywordform parses the form. when a field is selected, click on the properties button, and make sure you set a unique identifier as tag.click on one of the icons such as "Aa" to insert a field.In MS Word (2007 or higher), go to the developer tab (you might need to enable "show developer tab in the ribbon", in Word options).parse_form('sample_form.docx')įor more information, see the main program at the end of the module, and also docstrings. In a python script, the parse_form function returns a dictionary of field values indexed by tags:įields = pywordform. You may also add or edit fields, and create your own Word form (see below).įrom the shell, you may use the module as a tool to extract all fields with tags: Open the file sample_form.docx (provided with the source code) in MS Word, and edit field values. The archive is available on the project page. v0.02: added support for multiline text fields.Pywordform is a python module to parse Microsoft Word forms in docx format, and extract all field values with their tags into a python dictionary.