docxreviews2txt

Command line tool to extract review changes and comments from a docx file as plain text. It is particullary usefull after do review changes in pdf files at docx editor (e.g., MS Word, gdocs).

How to install?

pip install docxreviews2txt

How to use it?

usage: docxreviews2txt [-h] [--version] docx

Command line tool to extract review changes from a docx file as plain text

positional arguments:
  docx        input docx

options:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  --version   show version

Example:

$ docxreviews2txt tests/lorem_ipsum.docx
txt reviews at file:///C:/Users/alan/src/docxreviews2txt/tests/lorem_ipsum_review.txt

$ cat c:/Users/alan/src/docxreviews2txt/tests/lorem_ipsum_review.txt
# comments
- This is a comment from docx
# Typos and rewriting suggestions
# Typos suggestions (using HTML tags <ins> and <del>)
- dolor sit amet, consectetur <ins>Lorem ipsum</ins><del>adipiscing</del>
- sit amet, consectetur adipiscing<ins>s</ins> elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim <ins>do</ins>
- Ut enim ad minim <ins>Lorem</ins>veniam<ins>ipsum</ins>
- dolor sit amet, consectetur <del>adipiscing</del>

Known issues

The tool fails to capture changes in Docx files with text organized in tables (e.g., pdf2docx converts columns to tables).

References

This project takes inspiration from:

• https://github.com/ankushshah89/python-docx2txt
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47390928/extract-docx-comments
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38247251/how-to-extract-text-inserted-with-track-changes-in-python-docx