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Convert odt, doc, docx, pdf to text with python and some linux programs. Doesn't require Libreoffice.
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| from subprocess import Popen, PIPE | |
| from docx import opendocx, getdocumenttext | |
| #http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5725278/python-help-using-pdfminer-as-a-library | |
| from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter | |
| from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter | |
| from pdfminer.layout import LAParams | |
| from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage | |
| from cStringIO import StringIO | |
| def convert_pdf_to_txt(path): | |
| rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager() | |
| retstr = StringIO() | |
| codec = 'utf-8' | |
| laparams = LAParams() | |
| device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams) | |
| fp = file(path, 'rb') | |
| interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device) | |
| password = "" | |
| maxpages = 0 | |
| caching = True | |
| pagenos=set() | |
| for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fp, pagenos, maxpages=maxpages, password=password,caching=caching, check_extractable=True): | |
| interpreter.process_page(page) | |
| fp.close() | |
| device.close() | |
| str = retstr.getvalue() | |
| retstr.close() | |
| return str | |
| def document_to_text(filename, file_path): | |
| if filename[-4:] == ".doc": | |
| cmd = ['antiword', file_path] | |
| p = Popen(cmd, stdout=PIPE) | |
| stdout, stderr = p.communicate() | |
| return stdout.decode('ascii', 'ignore') | |
| elif filename[-5:] == ".docx": | |
| document = opendocx(file_path) | |
| paratextlist = getdocumenttext(document) | |
| newparatextlist = [] | |
| for paratext in paratextlist: | |
| newparatextlist.append(paratext.encode("utf-8")) | |
| return '\n\n'.join(newparatextlist) | |
| elif filename[-4:] == ".odt": | |
| cmd = ['odt2txt', file_path] | |
| p = Popen(cmd, stdout=PIPE) | |
| stdout, stderr = p.communicate() | |
| return stdout.decode('ascii', 'ignore') | |
| elif filename[-4:] == ".pdf": | |
| return convert_pdf_to_txt(file_path) |
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