Scraping words from word document

mmker · Jun 10, 2022

Hello,

I have a word document with a lot of lines from which I have to extract a specific word(that I name) and the word that comes right after it.

Any solutions? I don't think I can do it with basic office word tools, so I'm thinking I might need programming.

Thanks!

TheToolbox · Jun 10, 2022

Hello

How many lines have the document ? And yes if the document have like thousand lines it is better to do that with programming. i would suggest python.

mmker · Jun 10, 2022

TheToolbox said:
Hello

How many lines have the document ? And yes if the document have like thousand lines it is better to do that with programming. i would suggest python.

A lot. I have 250k words in a 555 pages document. I'm willing to pay someone to write me a script in python, so if you or anyone that sees this knows someone available, HMU

Thanks!

noneisnone · Jun 10, 2022

mmker said:
A lot. I have 250k words in a 555 pages document. I'm willing to pay someone to write me a script in python, so if you or anyone that sees this knows someone available, HMU
Thanks!

i can do it for you not write you a script but provide you with final results

let me know

mmker · Jun 10, 2022

noneisnone said:
i can do it for you not write you a script but provide you with final results let me know

I would like a working script because this is not a one time process. Thank you anyway

BlogPro · Jun 10, 2022

This should be simple enough.

Depending on the work, you can use the native python-docx library to extract text, run a search function, find the target word and the proceeding word.

Another solution would be to use ElementTree - since .docx are just compressed archives (zip files) that contain a bunch of XML files. So extracting the file + running the extraction command on the resultant XML would solve your purpose.

The resultant output can be written to a CSV.

mmker · Jun 10, 2022

BlogPro said:
This should be simple enough.

Depending on the work, you can use the native python-docx library to extract text, run a search function, find the target word and the proceeding word.

Another solution would be to use ElementTree - since .docx are just compressed archives (zip files) that contain a bunch of XML files. So extracting the file + running the extraction command on the resultant XML would solve your purpose.

The resultant output can be written to a CSV.

thanks for your input. I found a solution

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