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

Without Installing python-docx

docx is basically is a zip file with several folders and files within it. In the link below you can find a simple function to extract the text from docx file, without the need to rely on python-docx and lxml the latter being sometimes hard to install:

http://etienned.github.io/posts/extract-text-from-word-docx-simply/