How to read .doc files

sivakumar · Sep-06-2017, 05:40 AM

How to read .doc files in python?

**Larz60+** · (This post was last modified: Sep-06-2017, 07:46 AM by Larz60+.)

Microsoft Word
or
Open Office text
python-docx2txt to read from python
more: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=s...mit=search

**nilamo** · Sep-10-2017, 11:34 PM

Which .doc? There's more than one. There's the older (I think pre-2013) that was a binary format, and then there's the current format which is a variant of xml.

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