Hi, is there a way to read, display and edit word documents within Streamlit?
(Available python packages can only create and modify word docx files in the background, but how can I show a properly formatted word file within streamlit?)
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Not sure if you ever got an answer for this. Suggested approach is to programmatically convert msdoc to markdown.
One approach:
import docx
import PyPDF2
import markdown
def convert_docx_to_markdown(input_file, output_file):
doc = docx.Document(input_file)
paragraphs = [p.text for p in doc.paragraphs]
markdown_text = ‘\n’.join(paragraphs)
with open(output_file, ‘w’, encoding=‘utf-8’) as f:
f.write(markdown_text)
print(“Conversion successful!”)
def convert_pdf_to_markdown(input_file, output_file):
with open(input_file, ‘rb’) as f:
pdf_reader = PyPDF2.PdfReader(f)
text = ‘’
for page in pdf_reader.pages:
text += page.extract_text()
markdown_text = markdown.markdown(text)
with open(output_file, ‘w’, encoding=‘utf-8’) as f:
f.write(markdown_text)
print(“Conversion successful!”)
input_file = ‘input.docx’ # Replace with the path to your Word document or PDF file
output_file = ‘output.md’ # Replace with the desired output Markdown file
if input_file.endswith(‘.docx’):
convert_docx_to_markdown(input_file, output_file)
elif input_file.endswith(‘.pdf’):
convert_pdf_to_markdown(input_file, output_file)
else:
print(“Unsupported file format.”)
Another approach:
import subprocess
def convert_to_markdown(input_file, output_file):
try:
subprocess.run([‘pandoc’, ‘-s’, input_file, ‘-o’, output_file])
print(“Conversion successful!”)
except FileNotFoundError:
print(“Pandoc is not installed or not in the system path.”)
except Exception as e:
print(“An error occurred during conversion:”, str(e))
input_file = ‘input.docx’ # Replace with the path to your Word document or PDF file
output_file = ‘output.md’ # Replace with the desired output Markdown file
convert_to_markdown(input_file, output_file)