How to extract text from an existing docx file using python-docx

Question

I\'m trying to use python-docx module (pip install python-docx) but it seems to be very confusing as in github repo test sample they are using

Answer 1

you can try this

import docx

def getText(filename):
    doc = docx.Document(filename)
    fullText = []
    for para in doc.paragraphs:
        fullText.append(para.text)
    return '\n'.join(fullText)