I'am tasked with converting tons of .doc files to .pdf. And the only way my supervisor wants me to do this is through MSWord 2010. I know I should be able to automate this with python COM automation. Only problem is I dont know how and where to start. I tried searching for some tutorials but was not able to find any (May be I might have, but I don't know what I'm looking for).
Right now I'm reading through this. Dont know how useful this is going to be.
A simple example using comtypes, converting a single file, input and output filenames given as commandline arguments:
import sys
import os
import comtypes.client
wdFormatPDF = 17
in_file = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[1])
out_file = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[2])
word = comtypes.client.CreateObject('Word.Application')
doc = word.Documents.Open(in_file)
doc.SaveAs(out_file, FileFormat=wdFormatPDF)
doc.Close()
word.Quit()
You could also use pywin32, which would be the same except for:
import win32com.client
and then:
word = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')
You can use the docx2pdf python package to bulk convert docx to pdf. It can be used as both a CLI and a python library. It requires Microsoft Office to be installed and uses COM on Windows and AppleScript (JXA) on macOS.
from docx2pdf import convert
convert("input.docx")
convert("input.docx", "output.pdf")
convert("my_docx_folder/")
pip install docx2pdf
docx2pdf input.docx output.pdf
Disclaimer: I wrote the docx2pdf package. https://github.com/AlJohri/docx2pdf
I have tested many solutions but no one of them works efficiently on Linux distribution.
I recommend this solution :
import sys
import subprocess
import re
def convert_to(folder, source, timeout=None):
args = [libreoffice_exec(), '--headless', '--convert-to', 'pdf', '--outdir', folder, source]
process = subprocess.run(args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, timeout=timeout)
filename = re.search('-> (.*?) using filter', process.stdout.decode())
return filename.group(1)
def libreoffice_exec():
# TODO: Provide support for more platforms
if sys.platform == 'darwin':
return '/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice'
return 'libreoffice'
and you call your function:
result = convert_to('TEMP Directory', 'Your File', timeout=15)
All resources:
https://michalzalecki.com/converting-docx-to-pdf-using-python/
I have worked on this problem for half a day, so I think I should share some of my experience on this matter. Steven's answer is right, but it will fail on my computer. There are two key points to fix it here:
(1). The first time when I created the 'Word.Application' object, I should make it (the word app) visible before open any documents. (Actually, even I myself cannot explain why this works. If I do not do this on my computer, the program will crash when I try to open a document in the invisible model, then the 'Word.Application' object will be deleted by OS. )
(2). After doing (1), the program will work well sometimes but may fail often. The crash error "COMError: (-2147418111, 'Call was rejected by callee.', (None, None, None, 0, None))" means that the COM Server may not be able to response so quickly. So I add a delay before I tried to open a document.
After doing these two steps, the program will work perfectly with no failure anymore. The demo code is as below. If you have encountered the same problems, try to follow these two steps. Hope it helps.
import os
import comtypes.client
import time
wdFormatPDF = 17
# absolute path is needed
# be careful about the slash '\', use '\\' or '/' or raw string r"..."
in_file=r'absolute path of input docx file 1'
out_file=r'absolute path of output pdf file 1'
in_file2=r'absolute path of input docx file 2'
out_file2=r'absolute path of outputpdf file 2'
# print out filenames
print in_file
print out_file
print in_file2
print out_file2
# create COM object
word = comtypes.client.CreateObject('Word.Application')
# key point 1: make word visible before open a new document
word.Visible = True
# key point 2: wait for the COM Server to prepare well.
time.sleep(3)
# convert docx file 1 to pdf file 1
doc=word.Documents.Open(in_file) # open docx file 1
doc.SaveAs(out_file, FileFormat=wdFormatPDF) # conversion
doc.Close() # close docx file 1
word.Visible = False
# convert docx file 2 to pdf file 2
doc = word.Documents.Open(in_file2) # open docx file 2
doc.SaveAs(out_file2, FileFormat=wdFormatPDF) # conversion
doc.Close() # close docx file 2
word.Quit() # close Word Application
unoconv (writen in Python) and OpenOffice running as a headless daemon.
https://github.com/unoconv/unoconv
http://dag.wiee.rs/home-made/unoconv/
Works very nicely for doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx.
Very useful if you need to convert docs or save/convert to certain formats on a server.
As an alternative to the SaveAs function, you could also use ExportAsFixedFormat which gives you access to the PDF options dialog you would normally see in Word. With this you can specify bookmarks and other document properties.
doc.ExportAsFixedFormat(OutputFileName=pdf_file,
ExportFormat=17, #17 = PDF output, 18=XPS output
OpenAfterExport=False,
OptimizeFor=0, #0=Print (higher res), 1=Screen (lower res)
CreateBookmarks=1, #0=No bookmarks, 1=Heading bookmarks only, 2=bookmarks match word bookmarks
DocStructureTags=True
);
The full list of function arguments is: 'OutputFileName', 'ExportFormat', 'OpenAfterExport', 'OptimizeFor', 'Range', 'From', 'To', 'Item', 'IncludeDocProps', 'KeepIRM', 'CreateBookmarks', 'DocStructureTags', 'BitmapMissingFonts', 'UseISO19005_1', 'FixedFormatExtClassPtr'
It's worth noting that Stevens answer works, but make sure if using a for loop to export multiple files to place the ClientObject or Dispatch statements before the loop - it only needs to be created once - see my problem: Python win32com.client.Dispatch looping through Word documents and export to PDF; fails when next loop occurs
If you don't mind using PowerShell have a look at this Hey, Scripting Guy! article. The code presented could be adopted to use the wdFormatPDF enumeration value of WdSaveFormat (see here).
This blog article presents a different implementation of the same idea.
I have modified it for ppt support as well. My solution support all the below-specified extensions.
word_extensions = [".doc", ".odt", ".rtf", ".docx", ".dotm", ".docm"]
ppt_extensions = [".ppt", ".pptx"]
My Solution: Github Link
I have modified code from Docx2PDF
I tried the accepted answer but wasn't particularly keen on the bloated PDFs Word was producing which was usually an order of magnitude bigger than expected. After looking how to disable the dialogs when using a virtual PDF printer I came across Bullzip PDF Printer and I've been rather impressed with its features. It's now replaced the other virtual printers I used previously. You'll find a "free community edition" on their download page.
The COM API can be found here and a list of the usable settings can be found here. The settings are written to a "runonce" file which is used for one print job only and then removed automatically. When printing multiple PDFs we need to make sure one print job completes before starting another to ensure the settings are used correctly for each file.
import os, re, time, datetime, win32com.client
def print_to_Bullzip(file):
util = win32com.client.Dispatch("Bullzip.PDFUtil")
settings = win32com.client.Dispatch("Bullzip.PDFSettings")
settings.PrinterName = util.DefaultPrinterName # make sure we're controlling the right PDF printer
outputFile = re.sub("\.[^.]+$", ".pdf", file)
statusFile = re.sub("\.[^.]+$", ".status", file)
settings.SetValue("Output", outputFile)
settings.SetValue("ConfirmOverwrite", "no")
settings.SetValue("ShowSaveAS", "never")
settings.SetValue("ShowSettings", "never")
settings.SetValue("ShowPDF", "no")
settings.SetValue("ShowProgress", "no")
settings.SetValue("ShowProgressFinished", "no") # disable balloon tip
settings.SetValue("StatusFile", statusFile) # created after print job
settings.WriteSettings(True) # write settings to the runonce.ini
util.PrintFile(file, util.DefaultPrinterName) # send to Bullzip virtual printer
# wait until print job completes before continuing
# otherwise settings for the next job may not be used
timestamp = datetime.datetime.now()
while( (datetime.datetime.now() - timestamp).seconds < 10):
if os.path.exists(statusFile) and os.path.isfile(statusFile):
error = util.ReadIniString(statusFile, "Status", "Errors", '')
if error != "0":
raise IOError("PDF was created with errors")
os.remove(statusFile)
return
time.sleep(0.1)
raise IOError("PDF creation timed out")
I was working with this solution but I needed to search all .docx, .dotm, .docm, .odt, .doc or .rtf and then turn them all to .pdf (python 3.7.5). Hope it works...
import os
import win32com.client
wdFormatPDF = 17
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(r'your directory here'):
for f in files:
if f.endswith(".doc") or f.endswith(".odt") or f.endswith(".rtf"):
try:
print(f)
in_file=os.path.join(root,f)
word = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')
word.Visible = False
doc = word.Documents.Open(in_file)
doc.SaveAs(os.path.join(root,f[:-4]), FileFormat=wdFormatPDF)
doc.Close()
word.Quit()
word.Visible = True
print ('done')
os.remove(os.path.join(root,f))
pass
except:
print('could not open')
# os.remove(os.path.join(root,f))
elif f.endswith(".docx") or f.endswith(".dotm") or f.endswith(".docm"):
try:
print(f)
in_file=os.path.join(root,f)
word = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')
word.Visible = False
doc = word.Documents.Open(in_file)
doc.SaveAs(os.path.join(root,f[:-5]), FileFormat=wdFormatPDF)
doc.Close()
word.Quit()
word.Visible = True
print ('done')
os.remove(os.path.join(root,f))
pass
except:
print('could not open')
# os.remove(os.path.join(root,f))
else:
pass
The try and except was for those documents I couldn't read and won't exit the code until the last document.
You should start from investigating so called virtual PDF print drivers.
As soon as you will find one you should be able to write batch file that prints your DOC files into PDF files. You probably can do this in Python too (setup printer driver output and issue document/print command in MSWord, later can be done using command line AFAIR).
import docx2txt
from win32com import client
import os
files_from_folder = r"c:\\doc"
directory = os.fsencode(files_from_folder)
amount = 1
word = client.DispatchEx("Word.Application")
word.Visible = True
for file in os.listdir(directory):
filename = os.fsdecode(file)
print(filename)
if filename.endswith('docx'):
text = docx2txt.process(os.path.join(files_from_folder, filename))
print(f'{filename} transfered ({amount})')
amount += 1
new_filename = filename.split('.')[0] + '.txt'
try:
with open(os.path.join(files_from_folder + r'\txt_files', new_filename), 'w', encoding='utf-8') as t:
t.write(text)
except:
os.mkdir(files_from_folder + r'\txt_files')
with open(os.path.join(files_from_folder + r'\txt_files', new_filename), 'w', encoding='utf-8') as t:
t.write(text)
elif filename.endswith('doc'):
doc = word.Documents.Open(os.path.join(files_from_folder, filename))
text = doc.Range().Text
doc.Close()
print(f'{filename} transfered ({amount})')
amount += 1
new_filename = filename.split('.')[0] + '.txt'
try:
with open(os.path.join(files_from_folder + r'\txt_files', new_filename), 'w', encoding='utf-8') as t:
t.write(text)
except:
os.mkdir(files_from_folder + r'\txt_files')
with open(os.path.join(files_from_folder + r'\txt_files', new_filename), 'w', encoding='utf-8') as t:
t.write(text)
word.Quit()
The Source Code, see here:
https://neculaifantanaru.com/en/python-full-code-how-to-convert-doc-and-docx-files-to-pdf-from-the-folder.html
I would suggest ignoring your supervisor and use OpenOffice which has a Python api. OpenOffice has built in support for Python and someone created a library specific for this purpose (PyODConverter).
If he isn't happy with the output, tell him it could take you weeks to do it with word.
I am trying to save all the < a > links within the python homepage into a folder named 'Downloaded pages'. However after 2 iterations through the for loop I receive the following error:
www.python.org#content <_io.BufferedWriter name='Downloaded
Pages/www.python.org#content'> www.python.org#python-network
<_io.BufferedWriter name='Downloaded
Pages/www.python.org#python-network'>
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/Lucas/Python/AP book
exercise/Web Scraping/linkVerification.py", line 26, in
downloadedPage = open(os.path.join('Downloaded Pages', os.path.basename(linkUrlToOpen)), 'wb') IsADirectoryError: [Errno 21]
Is a directory: 'Downloaded Pages/'
I am unsure why this happens as it appears the pages are being saved as due to seeing '<_io.BufferedWriter name='Downloaded Pages/www.python.org#content'>', which says to me its the correct path.
This is my code:
import requests, os, bs4
# Create a new folder to download webpages to
os.makedirs('Downloaded Pages', exist_ok=True)
# Download webpage
url = 'https://www.python.org/'
res = requests.get(url)
res.raise_for_status() # Check if the download was successful
soupObj = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res.text, 'html.parser') # Collects all text form the webpage
# Find all 'a' links on the webpage
linkElem = soupObj.select('a')
numOfLinks = len(linkElem)
for i in range(numOfLinks):
linkUrlToOpen = 'https://www.python.org' + linkElem[i].get('href')
print(os.path.basename(linkUrlToOpen))
# save each downloaded page to the 'Downloaded pages' folder
downloadedPage = open(os.path.join('Downloaded Pages', os.path.basename(linkUrlToOpen)), 'wb')
print(downloadedPage)
if linkElem == []:
print('Error, link does not work')
else:
for chunk in res.iter_content(100000):
downloadedPage.write(chunk)
downloadedPage.close()
Appreciate any advice, thanks.
The problem is that when you try to do things like parse the basename of a page with an .html dir it works, but when you try to do it with one that doesn't specify it on the url like "http://python.org/" the basename is actually empty (you can try printing first the url and then the basename bewteen brackets or something to see what i mean). So to work arround that, the easiest solution would be to use absolue paths like #Thyebri said.
And also, remember that the file you write cannot contain characters like '/', '\' or '?'
So, i dont know if the following code it's messy or not, but using the re library i would do the following:
filename = re.sub('[\/*:"?]+', '-', linkUrlToOpen.split("://")[1])
downloadedPage = open(os.path.join('Downloaded_Pages', filename), 'wb')
So, first i remove part i remove the "https://" part, and then with the regular expressions library i replace all the usual symbols that are present in url links with a dash '-' and that is the name that will be given to the file.
Hope it works!
I want to save all images from a site. wget is horrible, at least for http://www.leveldesigninspirationmachine.tumblr.com since in the image folder it just drops html files, and nothing as an extension.
I found a python script, the usage is like this:
[python] ImageDownloader.py URL MaxRecursionDepth DownloadLocationPath MinImageFileSize
Finally I got the script running after some BeautifulSoup problems.
However, I can't find the files anywhere. I also tried "/" as the output dir in hope the images got on the root of my HD but no luck. Can someone either help me to simplify the script so it outputs at the cd directory set in terminal. Or give me a command that should work. I have zero python experience and I don't really want to learn python for a 2 year old script that maybe doesn't even work the way I want.
Also, how can I pass an array of website? With a lot of scrapers it gives me the first few results of the page. Tumblr has the load on scroll but that has no effect so i would like to add /page1 etc.
thanks in advance
# imageDownloader.py
# Finds and downloads all images from any given URL recursively.
# FB - 201009094
import urllib2
from os.path import basename
import urlparse
#from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup # for HTML parsing
import bs4
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
global urlList
urlList = []
# recursively download images starting from the root URL
def downloadImages(url, level, minFileSize): # the root URL is level 0
# do not go to other websites
global website
netloc = urlparse.urlsplit(url).netloc.split('.')
if netloc[-2] + netloc[-1] != website:
return
global urlList
if url in urlList: # prevent using the same URL again
return
try:
urlContent = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
urlList.append(url)
print url
except:
return
soup = BeautifulSoup(''.join(urlContent))
# find and download all images
imgTags = soup.findAll('img')
for imgTag in imgTags:
imgUrl = imgTag['src']
# download only the proper image files
if imgUrl.lower().endswith('.jpeg') or \
imgUrl.lower().endswith('.jpg') or \
imgUrl.lower().endswith('.gif') or \
imgUrl.lower().endswith('.png') or \
imgUrl.lower().endswith('.bmp'):
try:
imgData = urllib2.urlopen(imgUrl).read()
if len(imgData) >= minFileSize:
print " " + imgUrl
fileName = basename(urlsplit(imgUrl)[2])
output = open(fileName,'wb')
output.write(imgData)
output.close()
except:
pass
print
print
# if there are links on the webpage then recursively repeat
if level > 0:
linkTags = soup.findAll('a')
if len(linkTags) > 0:
for linkTag in linkTags:
try:
linkUrl = linkTag['href']
downloadImages(linkUrl, level - 1, minFileSize)
except:
pass
# main
rootUrl = 'http://www.leveldesigninspirationmachine.tumblr.com'
netloc = urlparse.urlsplit(rootUrl).netloc.split('.')
global website
website = netloc[-2] + netloc[-1]
downloadImages(rootUrl, 1, 50000)
As Frxstream has commented, this program creates the files in the current directory (i.e. where you run it). After running the program, run ls -l (or dir) to find the files it has created.
If it seemingly hasn't created any files, then most probably it really hasn't created any files, most probably because there was an exception which your except: pass has hidden. To see what was going wrong, replace try: ... except: pass with just ..., and rerun the program. (If you can't understand and fix that, ask a separate StackOverflow question.)
it's hard to tell without looking at the errors (+1 to turning off your try/except block so you can see the exceptions) but I do see one typo here:
fileName = basename(urlsplit(imgUrl)[2])
you didn't do "from urlparse import urlsplit" you have "import urlparse" so you need to refer to it as urlparse.urlsplit() as you have in other places, so should be like this
fileName = basename(urlparse.urlsplit(imgUrl)[2])