{"id":12276,"date":"2024-03-14T15:31:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T15:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-python-read-the-text-content-from-a-word-document\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T23:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:35:08","slug":"how-can-python-read-the-text-content-from-a-word-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-python-read-the-text-content-from-a-word-document\/","title":{"rendered":"Python Read Word Document: Extract Text Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Python can utilize the python-docx library to extract text content from Word documents. Here is an example code:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">from<\/span> docx <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">import<\/span> Document\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u6253\u5f00Word\u6587\u6863<\/span>\r\ndoc = Document(<span class=\"hljs-string\">'example.docx'<\/span>)\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u904d\u5386\u6587\u6863\u7684\u6bb5\u843d\u5e76\u8f93\u51fa\u6587\u672c\u5185\u5bb9<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> para <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> doc.paragraphs:\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">print<\/span>(para.text)\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u904d\u5386\u6587\u6863\u7684\u8868\u683c\u5e76\u8f93\u51fa\u5355\u5143\u683c\u5185\u5bb9<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> table <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> doc.tables:\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> row <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> table.rows:\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> cell <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> row.cells:\r\n            <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">print<\/span>(cell.text)\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, we start by importing the Document class. Next, we create a Document object by passing the file path of a Word document. We can then use the paragraphs property to iterate through the document&#8217;s paragraphs and output the text content of each paragraph. Similarly, we can use the tables property to iterate through the document&#8217;s tables and output the content of each cell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Python can utilize the python-docx library to extract text content from Word documents. 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