MSoffice metadata

[micklee74]

hi
is there a module in Python to extract metadata in MS office documents
thanks

 

[Gary Herron]

hi
is there a module in Python to extract metadata in MS office documents
thanks

Perhaps. OpenOffice can read and write MS office files, and OpenOffice
has an API (called UNO for Universal Network Objects) which has a Python
binding (called the Python-UNO bridge). This might (eventually) get you
what you want.

Here's a URL for it:
http://udk.openoffice.org/python/python-bridge.html

Good luck,
Gary Herron

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

hi
is there a module in Python to extract metadata in MS office documents

You can automate MS Office using the python win32 com extensions of Mark
Hammond. They come bundled with the active-state python build, or can be
obtained separately.

Diez

 

[Roger Upole]

hi
is there a module in Python to extract metadata in MS office documents
thanks

The Pywin32 package (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/)
wraps the interfaces used to read and write document properties.
Specifically, you can use pythoncom.StgOpenStorage to retrieve
an IPropertySetStorage interface.

Roger