Simple function to extract text from MS XML Word document (.docx) without any dependencies.

extractdocx.py

try:
    from xml.etree.cElementTree import XML
except ImportError:
    from xml.etree.ElementTree import XML
import zipfile


"""
Module that extract text from MS XML Word document (.docx).
(Inspired by python-docx <https://github.com/mikemaccana/python-docx>)
"""

WORD_NAMESPACE = '{http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main}'
PARA = WORD_NAMESPACE + 'p'
TEXT = WORD_NAMESPACE + 't'


def get_docx_text(path):
    """
    Take the path of a docx file as argument, return the text in unicode.
    """
    document = zipfile.ZipFile(path)
    xml_content = document.read('word/document.xml')
    document.close()
    tree = XML(xml_content)

    paragraphs = []
    for paragraph in tree.getiterator(PARA):
        texts = [node.text
                 for node in paragraph.getiterator(TEXT)
                 if node.text]
        if texts:
            paragraphs.append(''.join(texts))

    return '\n\n'.join(paragraphs)

It works great! Thanks

@etienned Is it possible to read "heading" style and "Normal" style separately ??

Thanks a lot for this !! It saved a lot of resources for me.

Also, can you give me some direction or suggestion for extracting data from doc file ?

This code is amazing! I really like how it is designed and works. Is it possible to have UTF-8 encoding in this program? Some special characters such as accented characters do not render nicely.

Thanks! It do me a big favor!

Thanks!

Works like a charm! Thank You!

Methods getchildren() and getiterator() of classes ElementTree and Element in the ElementTree module have been removed. They were deprecated in Python 3.2. Use iter(x) or list(x) instead of x.getchildren() and x.iter() or list(x.iter()) instead of x.getiterator(). (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in bpo-36543.)

comment out everything in the function -> get_docx_text() and add these statements ->
#print(type(document))
#print(document.namelist(),'\n\n')
#print(document.printdir()) <> It's possible the 'word/document.xml' is not present in the meta data of that docx file.