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#!/usr/bin/env python

"""

This file opens a docx (Office 2007) file and dumps the text.

If you need to extract text from documents, use this file as a basis for your

work.

Part of Python's docx module - http://github.com/mikemaccana/python-docx

See LICENSE for licensing information.

"""

import sys

from docx import opendocx, getdocumenttext

if __name__ == '__main__':

try:

document = opendocx(sys.argv[1])

newfile = open(sys.argv[2], 'w')

except:

print(

"Please supply an input and output file. For example:\n"

" example-extracttext.py 'My Office 2007 document.docx' 'outp"

"utfile.txt'"

)

exit()

# Fetch all the text out of the document we just created

paratextlist = getdocumenttext(document)

# Make explicit unicode version

newparatextlist = []

for paratext in paratextlist:

newparatextlist.append(paratext.encode("utf-8"))

# Print out text of document with two newlines under each paragraph

newfile.write('\n\n'.join(newparatextlist))