Save the document in text format

[robo3945]

HI everybody,

How to convert the DOCX file in TXT? Some export functions will be useful?

I use that git project but it's not reliable...

Thanks

[martinmde]

Load into word.
"save as"
close issue

[jonasao]

@robo3945 This library is for handling docx documents/files. If you need to create documents in text format (.txt) there are better ways.

[robo3945]

I do not want to create text file, I'd like to extract the plain text from a docx. And I'd like to do via API not using Word ;)

[jonasao]

@robo3945 I see, you can make a loop that traverses the Document's paragraph and extracts their text-value.

Code in its simplest form below:

  document = Document('test.docx')
  txt_arr = []
  for p in document.paragraphs:
    txt_arr.append(p.text)
 
  # TODO: save the contents of txt_arr to a .txt file

[robo3945]

it's passed a lot of time from this answer and I do not remember well, but your code works also for lists in the DOCS?

[robo3945]

Does it work for bullet list too?

[didmar]

@robo3945 I see, you can make a loop that traverses the Document's paragraph and extracts their text-value.

Code in its simplest form below:

  document = Document('test.docx')
  txt_arr = []
  for p in document.paragraphs:
    txt_arr.append(p.text)
 
  # TODO: save the contents of txt_arr to a .txt file

Note that this won't work with bullets: the numbering won't be exported!
This made me switching over to pypandoc.