MS Word parser

[kenicheema]

Hi all,
I'm currently using antiword to extract content from MS Word files.
Is there another way to do this without relying on any command prompt
application?

 

[Tim Golden]

Hi all,
I'm currently using antiword to extract content from MS Word files.
Is there another way to do this without relying on any command prompt
application?

Well you haven't given your environment, but is there
anything to stop you from controlling Word itself via
COM? I'm no Word expert, but looking around, this
seems to work:

<code>
import win32com.client
word = win32com.client.Dispatch ("Word.Application")
doc = word.Documents.Open ("c:/temp/temp.doc")
text = doc.Range ().Text

open ("c:/temp/temp.txt", "w").write (text.encode ("UTF-8"))
</code>

TJG

 

[kenicheema]

Well you haven't given your environment, but is there
anything to stop you from controlling Word itself via
COM? I'm no Word expert, but looking around, this
seems to work:

<code>
import win32com.client
word = win32com.client.Dispatch ("Word.Application")
doc = word.Documents.Open ("c:/temp/temp.doc")
text = doc.Range ().Text

open ("c:/temp/temp.txt", "w").write (text.encode ("UTF-8"))
</code>

TJG

Tim,
I'm on Linux (RedHat) so using Word is not an option for me. Any
other suggestions?

 

[Ben C]

Tim,
I'm on Linux (RedHat) so using Word is not an option for me. Any
other suggestions?

There is OpenOffice which has a Python API to it (called UNO). But
piping through antiword is probably easier.

 

[Josiah Carlson]

I'm currently using antiword to extract content from MS Word files.
Is there another way to do this without relying on any command prompt
application?

There is also wvware http://wvware.sourceforge.net/, but it is also
generally a command-line application. Either of these programs are open
source, so you could (with a bit of work) wrap them with Swig or Pyrex
to access them directly from Python.

- Josiah