如何使用 python-docx 模块读取“.doc”文件

Question

I'm trying to read the.doc file with python-docx module, I'm doing

import docx

path = 'Sample-doc-file-100kb.doc'
doc = docx.Document(path) 
#extracting texts from doc

This works fine for.docx but gives ValueError: file 'Sample-doc-file-100kb.doc' is not a Word file, content type is 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.themeManager+xml' error for.doc file.

I searched and found that this docx module doesn't work for older version of doc file. And I looked for converting the doc to docx but all the solution are windows dependent.

I'm running this code on aws-lambda so can't use those method.

Any way to either convert to doc to docx (platform independent) or to read.doc file?

Answer 1

convert to doc to docx (platform independent)

If you are able to provide working LibreOffice or OpenOffice then you might try using unoconv to do doc to docx conversion as it

is a command line tool to convert any document format that LibreOffice can import to any document format that LibreOffice can export.

Answer 2

in Ubuntu with this command:

apt-get install antiword