Last Updated: February 25, 2016

Converting a Word document to text using IronPython

https://gist.github.com/1049541

__author__ = "Edward J. Stembler"
__date__ = "2009-01-09"
__module_name__ = "Converts a batch of Word documents, found in a directory, to text"
__version__ = "1.0"
version_info = (1,0,0)


import sys
import clr
import System
from System.Text import StringBuilder
from System.IO import DirectoryInfo, File, FileInfo, Path, StreamWriter

clr.AddReference("Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word")

import Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word as Word


def convert_files(doc_path):

 directory = DirectoryInfo(doc_path)
 files = directory.GetFiles("*.doc")

 for file_info in files:
 text = doc_to_text(Path.Combine(doc_path, file_info.Name))

 stream_writer = File.CreateText(Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(file_info.Name) + ".txt")
 stream_writer.Write(text)
 stream_writer.Close()

 return


def doc_to_text(filename):

 word_application = Word.ApplicationClass()
 word_application.visible = False

 document = word_application.Documents.Open(filename)

 result = StringBuilder()

 for p in document.Paragraphs:
 result.Append(clean_text(p.Range.Text))

 document.Close()
 document = None

 word_application.Quit()
 word_application = None

 return result.ToString()


def clean_text(text):

 text = text.replace("12円", "") # FF
 text = text.replace("07円", "") # BEL
 text = text.replace("\r", "\r\n") # CR -> CRLF

 return text


test_path = "C:\\test\\"

if __name__ == "__main__":
 if len(sys.argv) == 2:
 convert_files(sys.argv[1])
 else:
 convert_files(test_path)

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#ms word