HPR3596: Extracting text, tables and images from docx files using Python

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Tools to extract data from docx files:

1. docx2txt
2. python-docx2txt
3. python-docx

Code Snippets

text = docx2txt.process(src, img_dest) with open("data.txt", "wt") as f: f.write(text) 

document = docx.Document(src) tables = document.tables data = [] for table in tables: table_data = [] for row in table.rows: row_data = [] for cell in row.cells: row_data.append(cell.text) table_data.append(row_data) data.append(table_table) for i, table in enumerate(tables): with open(f"{i}.csv", "wt") as f: writer = csv.writer(f) writer.writerows(table)