DOCX Advanced Text Extraction – Fully Comprehensive and Robust

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DOCXHandler: Comprehensive Text Extraction from DOCX Files

This handler provides complete text extraction from Microsoft Word documents (.docx), including all document elements such as paragraphs, tables, headers, footers, text boxes, and footnotes. It's designed to handle complex document layouts commonly found in resumes, reports, and structured documents.

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Features

• Extracts text from document body paragraphs
• Processes table content with cell-by-cell extraction
• Captures header and footer text from all sections
• Attempts to extract text from embedded text boxes and shapes
• Handles footnotes and endnotes when available
• Deduplicates repeated content
• Cleans and normalizes extracted text

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Example Usage

Synchronous Extraction

from pathlib import Path

handler = DOCXHandler()
text = handler.extract(Path("document.docx"))
print(text)
# Output:
# Document title
# Paragraph content...
# Table data | Column 2...