How to read Word documents with Python
This post will talk about how to read Word Documents with Python. We're going to cover three different packages - docx2txt, docx, and my personal favorite: docx2python. The docx2txt package Let's talk about docx2text first. This is a Python package that allows you to scrape text and images from Word Documents. The example below reads in a Word Document containing the Zen of Python. As you can see, once we've imported docx2txt, all we need is one line of code to read in the text from the Word Document. We can read in the document using a method in the package called process, which takes the name of the file as input. Regular text, listed items, hyperlink text, and table text will all be returned in a single string. [code…