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Simple function to extract text from MS XML Word document (.docx) without any dependencies.
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| try: | |
| from xml.etree.cElementTree import XML | |
| except ImportError: | |
| from xml.etree.ElementTree import XML | |
| import zipfile | |
| """ | |
| Module that extract text from MS XML Word document (.docx). | |
| (Inspired by python-docx <https://github.com/mikemaccana/python-docx>) | |
| """ | |
| WORD_NAMESPACE = '{http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main}' | |
| PARA = WORD_NAMESPACE + 'p' | |
| TEXT = WORD_NAMESPACE + 't' | |
| def get_docx_text(path): | |
| """ | |
| Take the path of a docx file as argument, return the text in unicode. | |
| """ | |
| document = zipfile.ZipFile(path) | |
| xml_content = document.read('word/document.xml') | |
| document.close() | |
| tree = XML(xml_content) | |
| paragraphs = [] | |
| for paragraph in tree.getiterator(PARA): | |
| texts = [node.text | |
| for node in paragraph.getiterator(TEXT) | |
| if node.text] | |
| if texts: | |
| paragraphs.append(''.join(texts)) | |
| return '\n\n'.join(paragraphs) |
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