d2klab / doc2txt

doc2txt

This small package aims to convert several file formats into .txt files. As arguments for the command line you can insert:

• file (or files) path -> the file is converted in .txt format with the same name
• folder (or folders) path -> all the files in the folder are converted in .txt format with the same file name

Installation

This package runs on Ubuntu/Debian. In order to use the textract library we need to install the following dependencies libraries:

apt-get install python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev antiword unrtf poppler-utils pstotext tesseract-ocr \
flac ffmpeg lame libmad0 libsox-fmt-mp3 sox libjpeg-dev swig

And then we can install textract through pip:

pip install textract

Future work

Add a docker file to make doc2txt usable anywhere. NB: It may also be necessary to install zlib1g-dev on Docker instances of Ubuntu.

Usage

Example of usage:

python doc2txt.py <path_to_file>

or:

python doc2txt.py <path_to_folder>