Python Tracked Changes Library - docx-revisions

Read and write track changes in Word documents (.docx) with Python. docx-revisions extends python-docx to support document revision tracking, change tracking, and OOXML revision markup (insertions <w:ins> and deletions <w:del>) so you can programmatically accept text, list revisions with author and date, and apply insertions, deletions, or replacements with full revision metadata.

Use it for Microsoft Word-compatible revision tracking: parse DOCX files with track changes on, get accepted (clean) text, enumerate revisions per paragraph, or write new revisions (insert/delete/replace) that show up as track changes in Word.

Installation

pip install docx-revisions

Quick Start

Check out our examples!

Navigate to the examples directory to see code samples.

Read tracked changes

from docx_revisions import RevisionDocument

rdoc = RevisionDocument("tracked_changes.docx")
for para in rdoc.paragraphs:
    if para.has_track_changes:
        for change in para.track_changes:
            print(f"{type(change).__name__}: '{change.text}' by {change.author}")
        print(f"Accepted: {para.accepted_text}")
        print(f"Original: {para.original_text}")

Accept or reject all changes

from docx_revisions import RevisionDocument

rdoc = RevisionDocument("tracked_changes.docx")
rdoc.accept_all()   # or rdoc.reject_all()
rdoc.save("clean.docx")

Find and replace with tracking

from docx_revisions import RevisionDocument

rdoc = RevisionDocument("contract.docx")
count = rdoc.find_and_replace_tracked("Acme Corp", "NewCo Inc", author="Legal")
print(f"Replaced {count} occurrences")
rdoc.save("contract_revised.docx")

Add tracked insertions and deletions

from docx_revisions import RevisionParagraph

rp = RevisionParagraph.from_paragraph(paragraph)
rp.add_tracked_insertion("new text", author="Editor")
rp.add_tracked_deletion(start=5, end=10, author="Editor")