Legacy getdocumenttext about python-docx HOT 9 CLOSED

There's no exact counterpart so far. Can you say a more about your use case? It could be a simple snippet would do the trick.

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The main idea is just extract all the text from docx or "transform" the docx documento to TXT (or xml) document. I know i can do this using antiword or other command line tools, but i'm looking for something native.

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Why do you want to do that? For example, does it matter if the sequence of text is the same as is in the document or do you just care you get all the words, such as if you were indexing it for search?

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I want to use the text for search.. i need to index de text using
lucen/solr so.. i need to get the tex from docx (and only the text, the
images doesn't matters) to "export" to a plain text file and the use for
"text seach and index"

scanny wrote:

Why do you want to do that? For example, does it matter if the
sequence of text is the same as is in the document or do you just care
you get all the words, such as if you were indexing it for search?

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Ok, so something like this would be a start:

document = Document(filename)
text_chunks = []
for paragraph in document.paragraphs:
    text_chunks.append(paragraph.text)
for table in document.tables:
    for cell in table.cells:
        for paragraph in cell.paragraphs:
            text_chunks.append(paragraph.text)

It is possible that a table contains a cell that itself contains a table and so on. Not terrifically common as far as I know, but not unheard of. The library doesn't have API calls to locate tables contained in a cell yet, so you'll have to judge whether that's a problem.

Let us know how you go :)

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Hello, would it be possible to put the previous version back on pypi. I was pointing people to this project on my blog. Then I could just suggest installing the old version.

http://davidmburke.com/2014/02/04/python-convert-documents-doc-docx-odt-pdf-to-plain-text-without-libreoffice/

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Hi David, legacy versions of python-docx are actually named 'docx' on PyPI. All those versions are still available and will remain so indefinitely, to support users who have built applications using it. So you can install it with:

$ pip install docx

Folks will need to uninstall python-docx beforehand if they have it installed. Program behavior is unpredictable when both are installed as they both have the root package name 'docx'.

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Thanks for getting back so quick - you are right.

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See issue #72 for feature request for replacement property Document.text.

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