docdump 1.0.2

A package to extract text from common document types.

DocDump

Grant Holtes 2020

A package to extract text from common document types

DocDump aims to allow for raw text data and document metadata to be easily extracted from a range of commonly used document types, such as Word, PDF, PowerPoint, Excel, txt.

DocDump extracts all text as a single string, and does not preserve text structure. This makes it a useful tool in a natural language processing or search pipeline.

DocDump does not perform any preprocessing or normalisation.

Usage

from docdump import doc_reader

document = doc_reader("sampleFile.docx")

text_dump = document.text
metadata = document.metadata
filetype = document.filetype
absolute_path = document.path

Installation:

Use pip to install the package and its dependancies.

pip install docdump