Antiword is a free software reader for proprietary Microsoft Word documents, and is available for most computer platforms.
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How to bundle a program with auto-py-to-exe without changing PATH?
I want to include an external program with my Python program that I'll be turning into an .exe. The program is Antiword, which is used by textract to parse .doc files. If I have Antiword on my machine and modify the PATH environment variable to…
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Permission denied error when trying to run Antiword in Python
I'm trying to write a program that can convert a bunch of .doc files to .txt in Python. It should be able to run on multiple platforms and able to be totally self-contained.
To achieve this, I am trying to run the Antiword binary from within my…
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Antiword can't open 'C:\\?????? ????????\\info.doc' for reading in Windows
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I am using texttract python library to extract word document text. The problem is that: if the path contains arabic characters, then, antiword outputs that can't read the document.
Example
import textract
# path =…
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Added antiword buildpack in heroku but getting error
I am trying to fetch the doc file text using "textract" npm module but for this I have to install one of its dependency "antiword" on heroku
The command I used to install it was:
heroku buildpacks:add https://github.com/ropensci/antiword.git
But…
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getting "antiword" error while converting .doc documents to .txt
I have this below code which I'm using to convert word documents into txt. Code is good for .docx documents but for .doc below code is working okay in one system but is giving "antiword" error when I'm running this code on another system. "Both are…
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How to read a buffer string of a .doc file using antiword?
I want to extract text from a .doc file, but I want to use it in either fastapi or flash function and upload a file.
So I want to read a buffer string of the .doc file and extract text?
If I had a file path then I would just do,
import…
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