ooxmilker

OOXmilker is an Office Open XML parser that outputs HTML. It takes any Word (.docx, .docm), Excel (.xlsx, .xlsm), PowerPoint (pptx, pptm) or Visio (.vsdx, .vsdm)¹ file as an input. It returns every paragraphs from the file, one after the other.

Installation:

This package can be installed using the following instruction in a console:

pip install ooxmilker

Usage:

Once the package installed, the module can be imported like so:

import ooxmilker

To use OOXmilker, make a call to read() function. This function takes a string representing the path to an Office Open XML file as argument. read() being a generator function, it must be part of some sort of loop.

For example, the following script prints each paragraph from a Word file.

file_path = "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Guest\\My Documents\\document.docx"
for p in ooxmilker.read(file_path):
    print(p[0])
    print(p[1])

Each iteration returns a tuple with 2 values. In the example above, value p[0] is a string containing a single paragraph from document.docx with some HTML tags. Value p[1] is a dictionary providing context information on the paragraph.

Key	Possible Values	Description
tbl	True False	If True, the content is located inside a table. Does not apply to Excel files.
chg	True False	If True, the content contains changes (insertions or deletions). Applies to Word files only.

Continuing with the same example, p[1].get("tbl") would either return a boolean True or False. If True, the paragraph is part of a table; if False, the paragraph is not part of a table.

Compatibility

OOXmilker needs Python 3.6 to work.

Features from Office Open XML format and their respective compatibility when using OOXmilker will be listed in the near future.

1. Visio is not part of the OOXML standard, but still close enough for OOXmilker.