How to extract text from .docx with tables in Python

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The .docx file I have has tables, headers, etc. and I was wondering how I could extract text from that document. The only example code I could find uses paragraphs, and it doesn't work with my file.

Here is the code:

    doc = docx.Document(self.filename)
    fullText = []
    for para in doc.paragraphs:
        txt = para.text.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
        fullText.append(txt)
    self.text = '\n'.join(fullText)

When I run this code, I get this error:

 File "annotatorConnections.py", line 75, in openFile
    self.text = '\n'.join(fullText)
TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, bytes found
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pythonpython-3.xdocx

1 Answers

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Since you are getting a byte type instead of a string type in your fullText, you can use this to get this working :

doc = docx.Document(self.filename)
fullText = []
for para in doc.paragraphs:
    txt = para.text.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
    fullText.append(txt)
self.text = b'\n'.join(fullText)             ---------> Add prefix b to make it a byte object.