Short answer is no, because the page breaks are inserted by the rendering engine, not determined by the .docx file itself. However, certain clients place a <w:lastRenderedPageBreak> element in the saved XML to indicate where they broke the page last time it was rendered. I don’t know which do this (although I expect Word itself … Read more
I posted this question (even though I saw a few identical ones on here), because none of those (to my knowledge) solved the issue. There was one using a oodocx library, which I tried, but did not work. So I found a workaround. The code is very similar, but the logic is: when I find … Read more
The alternative approach to merge two documents including all the styles is to use python library docxcompose ( https://pypi.org/project/docxcompose/) . We do not need to explicitly define the styling and we do not have to read the document paragraph by paragraph and append it to the master document. The usage of the python docxcompose is … Read more
If you are using python 3x don’t do pip install docx instead go for pip install python-docx It is compatible with python 3.x Official Documentation available here: https://pypi.org/project/python-docx/
UPDATE: There are a couple of paragraph-level functions that do a good job of this and can be found on the GitHub site for python-docx. This one will replace a regex-match with a replacement str. The replacement string will appear formatted the same as the first character of the matched string. This one will isolate … Read more
Quoting the python-docx documentation: The Document.add_picture() method adds a specified picture to the end of the document in a paragraph of its own. However, by digging a little deeper into the API you can place text on either side of the picture in its paragraph, or both. When we “dig a little deeper”, we discover … Read more
you can try this import docx def getText(filename): doc = docx.Document(filename) fullText = [] for para in doc.paragraphs: fullText.append(para.text) return ‘\n’.join(fullText)