docx2csv 0.1.1

Extracts tables from .docx files and saves them as csv or xlsx

Usage: docx2csv [OPTIONS] FILENAME

docx to csv convertor (http://github.com/ivbeg/docx2csv) Extracts tables from DOCX files as CSV or XLSX.

Use command: “docx2csv convert <filename>” to run extraction. It will create files like filename_1.csv, filename_2.csv for each table found.

Options:

--format TEXT

Output format: CSV, XLSX

--singlefile TEXT

Outputs single XLS file with multiple sheets: True or False

--sizefilter INTEGER

Filters table by size number of rows

--help

Show this message and exit.

Examples

docx2csv –format csv –sizefilter 3 CP_CONTRACT_160166.docx

Extracts tables from file CP_CONTRACT_160166.docx with number of rows > 3 and saves results as CSV files.

Code

Function “extract_tables” returns list of tables from docx file and function “extract” extracts tables as xlsx, xls or csv file. If ‘csv’ file selected you need to specify single file csv or multiple files

>>> from docx2csv import extract_tables, extract
>>> tables = extract_tables('some_file.docx')

returns list of tables >>> extract(filename=’some_file.docx’, format=”xlsx”, output=’some_file.xlsx’) saves all tables from some_file.docx to some_file.xlsx

>>> extract(filename='some_file.docx', format="csv", singlefile=False)
saves all tables from some_file.docx to some_file_1.csv, some_file_2.csv and etc.

Requirements

• click https://github.com/pallets/click

• xlwt https://github.com/python-excel/xlwt

• python-docx https://github.com/python-openxml/python-docx

• openpyxl https://bitbucket.org/openpyxl/openpyxl/src

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Vsevolod Oparin (https://www.facebook.com/vsevolod.oparin) for optimized “extract_table” code

History

0.1.1 (2022-01-30)

• Fixed requirements.txt and setup.py requirements

0.1.0 (2018-01-14)

• First public release on PyPI and updated github code