word

A Pythonic Microsoft Word (.docx) file manager and style editor.

Repository Details

• STATUS: Active
• LATEST RELEASE: v.1.0.0-beta
• LAST UPDATED: 2021-10-22
• LICENSE: Public Domain (except where otherwise noted)
• URL: https://github.com/dt-woods/word

Summary

The goals of this project are to produce the following utility functions to automate some of the boring stuff with MS Word (.docx) files:

• Read a .docx file with generic (built-in) styles and write a copy with custom styles preserving the content (i.e., map one style to another).
• Read a .docx file and write individual .docx files based on a user-defined breaking style (e.g., parse a book into chapter files).
• Read a list of .docx files and write into a single concatenated .docx file (e.g., merge chapters into a book).
• Read a .docx file and find the paragraphs that contain embedded images

A lower priority is to create supplemental utility functions that:

• Searches the content of one or more .docx files for abbreviations and save the results to a table (i.e., create a vocab table).

See separate issues for more details.

This project makes use of the python-docx, a Python API for Microsoft Word .docx files, with documentation and repository that are licensed and copyrighted by Scanny using the MIT license.