On 25 January 2011 21:52, Juan Jose Del Toro <jdeltoro1...@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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