How do I extract data from a doc/docx file using Python

Question

I know there are similar questions out there, but I couldn\'t find something that would answer my prayers. What I need is a way to access certain data from MS-Word files and

Answer 1

To search in a document with python-docx

# Import the module
from docx import *

# Open the .docx file
document = opendocx('A document.docx')

# Search returns true if found    
search(document,'your search string')

You also have a function to get the text of a document:

https://github.com/mikemaccana/python-docx/blob/master/docx.py#L910

# Import the module
from docx import *

# Open the .docx file
document = opendocx('A document.docx')
fullText=getdocumenttext(document)

Using https://github.com/mikemaccana/python-docx