Kay Schluehr wrote:
On 28 Okt., 15:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All,
I am trying to write a script that will parse and extract data from a
MS Word document. Can / would anyone refer me to a tutorial on how to
do that? (perhaps from tables). I am aware of, and have downloaded
the pywin32 extensions, but am unsure of how to proceed -- I'm not
familiar with the COM API for word, so help for that would also be
welcome.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks for your attention and
patience.
::bp::
One can convert MS-Word documents into some class of XML documents
called MHTML. If I remember correctly those documents had an .mht
extension. The result is a huge amount of ( nevertheless structured )
markup gibberish together with text. If one spends time and attention
one can find pattern in the markup ( we have XML and it's human
readable ).
A related solution is to use OpenOffice to convert to
OpenDocumentFormat, a zipped multiple XML format, and then use ODFPY to
parse the XML and access the contents as linked objects.
http://opendocumentfellowship.com/development/projects/odfpy
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