[Tutor] extracting text from word files (.doc, .docx) and pdf

[Walter Prins]

On 25 January 2011 21:52, Juan Jose Del Toro <jdeltoro1973 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear List;
>
> I am looking for a way to extract parts of a text from word (.doc,.docx)
> files as well as pdf; the idea is to walk through the whole directory tree
> and populate a csv file with an excerpt from each file.
> For PDF I found PyPdf <http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/>ave found nothing to read
> doc, docx
>

http://www.google.com/search?q=python+read+ms+word+file&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

which returns this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/125222/extracting-text-from-ms-word-files-in-python

Additionally -- docx are, IIRC, zipped XML, so you could probably just
uncompress it and scan the XML directly...

Walter
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